LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...

As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.

D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At twelve minutes past midnight on the 1st of June, 1953, the pier nightwatchman told the life-boat motor mechanic that the pinnace from H.M.S. Verulam, which was anchored in Llandudno Bay, had sent an S O S...

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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 8.45 in the evening, on the 1st of June, 1950, dis- tress signals were seen about three miles south-east of Moelfre Island. At nine the life-boat G.W. was launched.

The sea was smooth, with a northerly...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 4.30 p.m. on 20th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was firing flares off Great Orme's head. The life-boat Lilly Wainwright was launched at 4.45 in a south westerly gale with a...

JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...