LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high seaon the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Lifeboat, Charles...

Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather

It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...

I sing a song of the Life-boat crew, Sons of the sturdy oar! Whose hearts are steadfast, firm and true, When angry billows roar.

Who flinch not when the raging gale Sends forth its deadly breath; Whose spirits ne'er a...

Fowey, Cornwall. —At 2.3 early on the morning of the 12th of August. 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel was sounding blasts on a fog- horn near Gwineas Rock about one mile west of Mevagissey. At 2.31 the life-boat C.D.E.C....

Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1960, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted to escort several local fishing cobles to harbour, as a gale was blowing from the east and causing a...

At 4.30 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, it was noticed that a cabin cruiser was broaching to in broken water on the North Tail. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker proceeded at 4.45 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was low water. A...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 August 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,058 times (an average of 9 launches a day) 585 lives were saved (an average of two a day) Some 6% of all...