LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
Barra Island, Hebrides.—A whole N.W.
gale suddenly sprang up at about 1 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, and fear was felt for the safety of the small boat, manned by four men, which attended the Barra Head...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
St. Mary
At 3.30 P.M.
on the 27th October, information was received that a small boat was drifting out to sea about a mile from Garryvoe Strand. In a strong northerly gale, with a heavy sea and rain, the Motor Life-boat Mary...
Scadan
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1955, a message was received from Cahirciveen asking if the life-boat would search for the fishing boat Scadan, of Tralee, which had not returned from...
Storm, of Cardiff
At daylight on the 17th November, the barque Storm, of Cardiff, was observed ashore about six miles from this place, with a signal of dis- tress flying, the wind blowing strongly at the time from the N.N.E. The Life-boat Cheltenham was...
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...
Solar flair
Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....
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Jeannie Slessor
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...
Mary
MAY 23RD. - HYTHE, KENT. At about 8.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul.
There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her...
Extraordinary people
RNLI volunteers were recognised with the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award in December 2012.
We’re one of just 60 organisations to receive this one-off award that marks the Jubilee and Olympic year.<...
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