LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Left Page, Main Pic: Crew Members Are Lifted from a Tiferaft Using a Helicopter
Left page, main pic: Crew members are lifted from a tiferaft using a helicopter winch simulator as Instructor Dave Bitlingham looks on.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles
Robbery
Survivors cling to upturned hull Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London was called to the rescue of three Dutch sailors on 2 June 1993 when their 34ft yacht lost its ballast keel and capsized off Selsey during a fierce squall in the...
Mr Michael O'Donaghue (Baltimore)
Mr Michael O'Donaghue (Baltimore) who served as coxswain for over 18 years and as bowman for nearly 12 years.
Category: Obituaries
Four Dinghies
FOUR DINGHIES CAPSIZE St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 3.55 p.m.
on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Eyemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Abbs that two sailing dinghies had capsized off Eyemouth.
Leading Chief
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 28th September the Coastguard reported that a barquentine was ashore on the Sunk Sands, and the crew of the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward were promptly assembled. A moderate S.W.
breeze...
A Yacht
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
A Motor Boat
Stranded on rocks ON HEARING FROM BARRY COASTGUARD, at 2220 on Saturday, September 13, 1975, that red flares had been reported to the west of Brean Down, the honorary secretary of Weston-super-Mare gave instructions for the maroons to be...
Cygnet
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...