LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.34 a.m. on 3rd July, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported a yacht aground and lying on her side on the Sunk Sands.

Weather conditions did not...

JANUARY 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.48 A.M. a message was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Brighton Palace Pier.

light N.E. breeze was blowing, with moderate swell. At 12.20 P.M. the motor...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.35 in the afternoon on the 4th of November, 1949, a fishing vessel at the north end of the bay was seen to be flying a distress signal. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 3.42 in a rough...

AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.

E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.

This stated that the...

In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI

It took some straight talking from her...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution.

{Incorporated by Royal Charter.*) Supported by Voluntary Contributions.

Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

President—THE EIGHT HON....

At 11 P.M. on the 14th November signals of distress were shown by the schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon.

The wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running.

The George...

ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.

Seven of the nine were rescued from the...