LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drake Dene
Clovelly, Devon. At 10.40 on the morning of the 5th of January, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that there was a small vessel in the bay flying a signal asking for medical help. As it was low water and no other vessel was...
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
The S.S. Belle
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 31st January the s.s. Belle, lightship tender, while returning to Wexford from the Lucifer Shoal Light-vessel, in a moderate breeze, with a moderate sea and thick weather at times, grounded on the E, end of the...
Helen Hutchnson
During a, strong W.N.W. gale with heavy sea on the 28th January the schooner Helen Hutcliesou, of Peterhead, at anchor in the Roadstead, showed signals of distress after an unsuccessful attempt by the vessel's crew to land in their own...
Audacity
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
Dagon
Margate, Kent. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulties about three and a half miles north- north-west of Margate pier. At 12.16 the life-boat North...
Jill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.55 in the evening of the 9th of June, 1948, news came that a fishing boat was on the revetment near C.7 black buoy, with the tide ebbing, and was in some danger. At 8.10 the No. 2 motor life- boat Edmund and Mary...
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Galway Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1959, a request was received from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to convey a child, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inishmaan Island to the...
(Front to Back): Bangor Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Youth of Ulster,
(Front to back): Bangor Atlantic 21 lifeboat Youth of Ulster, Lame Trent class lifeboat Dr John McSparran and Donaghadee Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Penarth: Marathon Effort
Last year, Penarth trainee Crew Member Simon Marchant completed more than 40 marathons in Wales
over 41 days, raising a fantastic £779 for the RNLI. Simon set off with a goal of running an average of 26.2 miles a day (the...
Category: Articles