LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St Cybi (Civil Service No.9) is one of 20 Barnett class boats built.

At 52ft they were the largest RNLI lifeboats at the time and were fine seaboats. All were built with open cockpit steering position but St Cybi was later... - View image in PDF

Keep the floating population floating When it's a matter of life and death, you can't afford anything but the best. And the best is an Avon rigid hull inflatable.

Rigid Hull Inflatables are now in service with the R...

ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.

on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...

Up to the end of June 1963 the new fast inshore rescue boats have been launched on service five times. The following is the list of services or at- tempted services: June 1st: Aberystwyth I.R.B. es- corted in a sailing boat in tow of a speed...

Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...

NOV. 26TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A steamer and a light-vessel had been in collision, but the life-boat’s services were not needed as a t u g a n d a t r a w l e r w e r e s t a n d i n g b y - Rewards, £36 14s. 6d..

JANUARY 16TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At 1.50 P.M. a message was received from the Stepper Point coastguard that a large R.A.F. launch, which had arrived under Pentire Head, needed help. A fresh N.N.E. breeze was blowing with...

TWO SAVED At 4.4. p.m. on I5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, operating as the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline, had broadcast a message that they had rescued two women...