LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest year on record
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
Category: Articles
Teymar
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Cachalot (1)
Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...
The Otto Miller and the Nora After Their Collision at Sea
The Otto Miller and The Nora After Their Collision at Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Padstow, a Spectacularly Difficult Position at the Foot of High Cliffs
Padstow, a spectacularly difficult position at the foot of high cliffs. - View image in PDF
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Nil Desperadum
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Crew of Arklow Lifeboat Inbhear Mor Whose Service to Mv Gansey on December 221955 Was the Longest for the Institution During the Winter Months of 1955/56: C May
Crew of Arklow lifeboat Inbhear Mor, whose service to MV Gansey on December 22,1955, was the longest for the Institution during the winter months of 1955/56: C. May, M. Fitzgerald, Bill Kenny, Motor Mechanic John Hayes, Coxswain Peter Kenny,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...
Category: Articles
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX. Three boats were out fishing on the 11th November, 1939, off Littlehampton, when the engine of one, the Margaret, broke down. Another boat, the Duchess of York, promised to tow her in after she had set...
Category: Services
Littleover and Michelover Branch
One of Littleover and Michelover branch's most dedicated, and certainly quietest, fund raisers retired from active service recently.
George (r) is no dummy when it comes to collecting money, having raised over £40... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs