LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roomer
The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 1.36 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small open boat with two occupants was flying dis- tress signals a mile and a half-mile south of Mumbles Head...
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GIRL HAD DROWNED Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 4.15 p.m. on I2th July, 1964, a local resident told the coxswain that a girl swimmer was in difficulties on the west side of Barra Island at Eoilgarry. There was a smooth sea with moderate...
Venture
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 7.5 on the night of the 25th of January, 1951, the police sent a message that a fishing boat was reported to have made flares off the Tolsta Head. At 7.30 the life-boat William and Harriet was launched in...
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Two hours searching - but nothing found One person is rescued, on average, every time an RNLI lifeboat is launched. Life-saving rescues are great news stories and it is these that capture the headlines across the country. But often the less...
Lifeboat People
Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.
* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Category: Services
PLAYING SAFE
Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place
Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Boats Provider, Galilee and Pilot Me
FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
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BOY FALLS FROM THE CLIFFS Wicklow.—On the evening of the 18th of May, 1947, a boy fell from the cliffs into the sea near the Wicklow Head Lighthouse. A life-buoy was thrown to him by a keeper and, although exhausted, the boy -was able...
Black Adder
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...