LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Be Happy
Mersey saves five despite loss of one engine When the remnants of Hurricane Lili swept up the Channel on 28 October it not only caused considerable damage ashore but also caught out a 90ft modern yacht, well-found and fitted with modern...
Moelfre Rose
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.
The coxswain was asked to...
The S.S. Conakrian
OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. As pre.
viously reported the No. 1 life-boat Emma Constance had been out on service to the S.S.
Conakrian, of Freetown, on the 20th October, and again on the 22nd. Early in the...
Fishing Cobles
Six of the fishing cobles belong- ing to Berwick and Spittal went to sea on the morning of the 24th January, and when at their lines, were overtaken by a sudden gale from N.E. The Cox- swain launched the Life-boat Matthew Simpson, at the...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,832 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,637 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 46 per cent of all services carried out...
Category: Articles
Sule Skerry
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near...
The Cuban-Registered Refrigerated Carrier Gran Piedra
The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...
Two Canoes
TWO CANOEISTS DROWN Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.16 on the afternoon of Friday the 23rd August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man at Penarth had reported to the police that three men in two canoes appeared...
Lottie
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 a.m. on I2th April, 1964, the watchkeeper of La Corbiere lighthouse informed the Harbour Office that a motor cruiser appeared to be on fire about half a mile west-northwest of the lighthouse. There was a moderate...
Heather George
FITTER PUT ABOARD MOTOR TRAWLER Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th November, 1962, a message was received that the motor trawler Heather George, of Swansea, had broken down and had anchored half a...