LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dingaling
Atlantics join forces to save yacht crew on Chichester Bar The Institution's Bronze medal for bravery has been awarded to crew member Graham Raines of the Hayling Island lifeboat crew following a very difficult rescue involving two...
Contributions from the Services.
The officers and men of the three fighting services have shown their gratitude by the way in which they responded in 1940 to the appeal which each year the Institution makes to them. The Navy and the Air Force contributed five times as much...
Category: Articles
A Surf Ski
Surf ski rider HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Agnes ILB station at 1626 on Sunday, July 17, 1977, that a surf ski rider was in difficulties off Porthtowan, about 3'/4 miles south west from St Agnes. The DLA...
A Catamaran
Weymouth, Dorset.—24th September.
The life-boat searched for a catamaran, which got ashore without help.— Rewards, £7 16*. Qd..
Pagasitikos
— At 8.50 A.M.
on the 30th January, the coastguard reported that a large steamer was aground on the Newcome Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross put out at 9 A.M. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Radieuse
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
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Category: Advertisement
A Year on the front line
All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.
RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
The new motor Life-boat John A. Hay was launched in a strong S.E. gale to assist some of the small fishing boats, engaged in lobster fishing, which were in difficulties, owing to the severity of the weather. The Life-boat searched for some...