LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...

COURTMACSHERRY, Co. Cork. — The fishing-smack Harry, of Courtmacsherry, while getting under weigh to run for shelter from the roadstead to the pier in a heavy W.S.W. gale, at 3 P.M. on the 17th May, lost one of her anchors. When under weigh...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...

AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.

August 1975: it was...

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LIFEBOAT GALLANTRY The Complete Record of RNLI Gallantry Medals and how they were won 1824-1996 Edited by Barry Cox, Honorary Librarian, RNLI Since the RNLI's...

J.H.MINET LIFE AND PENSIONS LIB A SUBSIDIARY OF MINET HOLDINGS LIMITED AN EXPANDING GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS is proud of its close association with the RNLI as advisers to its employees and crewmen on all aspects of personal...

Longhope, Orkneys. At 2.46 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a lightkeeper at Dunnet Head had seen a red flare in the direction of the Island of Swona. At 3.10 the life-boat Thomas...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 11.47 in the morning, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a quarter miles off Nevin Point.

Thirteen minutes later the life-boat...