LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Dunbar life-boat is seen in the background. - View image in PDF

FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 34). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:

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Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...

‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’

Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...

On the same day a gallant rescue wasperformed on the Yorkshire coast.

week before, the Belgian steamer cesse Clementine had gone ashore off Staithes. Her crew of nineteen were rescued by the Runswick Life-boat, but her...

APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.

An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...

CLIFDEN | 15 NOVEMBER
When a woman from Inishbofin Island suffered severe abdominal pain, she needed to reach medical help fast. Clifden RNLI volunteers responded in the early hours of the morning, launching into a force 8 gale, a...