LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SIX RESCUED FROM CABIN CRUISER IN NEAR GALE The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, a message was received from the coastguard that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties north-west of Port...

UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...

1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.

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Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...

AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...

Airflow" JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The...

Eleven-year-old Stuart Jones pictured with his father, Coxswain Mechanic Peter Jones of Porthdinllaen, with some of the fish from his 'mackerel race'.. - View image in PDF

Let's campaign to improve safety at sea! As an RNLI member, I was interested to read the Director's message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT and the Newspoint on page 147 suggesting that the RNLI is at last looking at ways to...