LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...

THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...

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Soon after the life-boat returned to her station, the S.S. Queen, of Dundee, re- ported a wreck on the Abertay Sands. A fresh crew was mustered, and the life-boat at once proceeded again, in tow of the Queen, some distance down the river,...

.ie RNLI's competition to find photos to help launch its 175th Anniversary Year , at the London Boat Show in January produced some stunning shots. The six winners are reproduced here - the overall winner gets £150 of photographic...

Statement of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, to March 1, 1825.

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1825 March 1 To amount of Donations and...

Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...