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Other Irb Launches

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 39, 49, 62, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire -...

Category: Services

14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.

Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...

Category: Services

Services By Offshore Lifeboats (From Page 82)

Date: Autumn 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 454

Services by Offshore Lifeboats (from page 82) Barry Dock, South Glamorgan June 13, 14, 30, July 1 (twice), 6, 20, 26, 28 (twice), August 4, 8, 24.

Beaumaris, Gwynedd July 19.

Bembridge, Isle of Wight June...

Category: Services

Lifeboatmen and Fishermen By Colin Ashford

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...

Category: Articles

Reading the sea

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

From surfers to fishermen to lifeboat coxswains, people who rely on the sea need to be expert at understanding what it’s doing. But how well do you know your tides, waves and currents?

The sea is changing all the time....

Category: Articles

Free range

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

With the recession, volcanic ash, and concerns for the environment, more people are taking holidays closer to home, especially to walk our coastal paths. What is the impact on the RNLI?

Waves crashing on a sandy beach or...

Category: Articles

A Winter Passage In a Motor Life-Boat

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1935 64,159 A Winter Passage in a Motor Life-boat.

By Mr....

Category: Articles

The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 76

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Category: Articles

1969: Disaster at Longhope

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019 (1)

A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago

A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...

Category: Articles