LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWPORT (PEMBROKESHIRE).—In reply to signals of distress, the Lifeboat Clevedon was launched at 3 A.M. on the 8th October while the wind was blowing a strong gale from "W. by N. to W.N.W.

It was found that the signal...

Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...

DECEMBER 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair Isle, was in urgent need of a doctor. A S. by W. gale...

Two lifeboats in night search for disabled yacht in heavy seas The Institution's chief of operations has written to Stephen Vince, the Coxswain/Mechanic of Poole lifeboat, to congratulate him on his leadership and boat handling skill...

Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...

The Angle life-boat station, on the Pembrokeshire coast, which was established in 1868, celebrated its centenary last year. During the last 100 years Pembroke- shire life-boats, it was stated at the ceremony, had saved 1,295 lives, 240 of...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 20th of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat from Ramsey Island bound for St. Justinian had broken down and was drifting past St. David'...

BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...