LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (173)
NOVEMBER 15TH . - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards :...
A Steamer (6)
DECEMBER 26TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A steamer had gone aground, but later it was reported that help was not needed and the life-boat was recalled.
- Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
The S.S. Barrister
JANUARY 4TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the morning news was received from Valentia Radio that the S.S. Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. The crew were called out at once and were on board the life-boat about ten o’clock, but...
Support Our Stations
SOS Day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is on Friday 28 January. On last year’s SOS Day, supporters raised over £500,000.
RNLI crew members are well known for going the extra mile when it comes to saving lives at...
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The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
Three Metal Floats
JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...
Swimming
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
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'A fantastic legacy'
A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.
BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...
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Thomas, Yorkshire Lass and Mischief
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 7th February, at about 6 P.M., the ketch Thomas, of Lynn, while endeavouring to make Hartlepool Harbour, went ashore near the Beacon Rocks. A gale from the S.S.E. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea....
Fishing Cobles (2)
NEWBIGQIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 12th May towards the middle of the day the N.N.E. wind freshened and the sea became dangerously rough.
Several of the fishing cobles were at sea, and as four were known to be some miles...