LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...

THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 25th, 1933 - - - 63,502 The Regulations of the Institution.<...

ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT THE MUMBLES JANUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. Just beforeseven o’clock in the morning signals of distress in Swansea Bay could be seen from The Mumbles, and the motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was...

Lifeboat crews will always be ready to rescue when the call for help comes in. But with commercial fishing one of the most dangerous peacetime occupations, how can the RNLI help our fishermen to improve their chances before help arrives?<...

When the cobles were out fishing on the 23rd February, the sea increased so much as to cause the landing to be very dan- gerous, the Coxswain therefore took out the Life-boat Robert and Susan and stood by them as they came...

Tidal race DURING THE AFTERNOON Of Sunday August 28,1983, Swanage lifeboat crew were assembled after consultation between the station's deputy launching authority (DLA) and Swanage Coastguard. An 18ft yacht had been sighted trying to...

Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...