Rhyl's D class inflatable lifeboat uses an impromptu slipway on the A548 coast road at Savoy Cove, North Wales during the flooding. - View image in PDF
(Photo Paul Frost, Rhyl liteboat crew). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At nine in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, information was received from the Civic Guards that a fishing boat, which had left Cahirciveen the previous afternoon, had not returned. Enquiries were made, but without...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 1.10 p.m. on 22nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary Secretary that a small sailing boat was in difficulties near Fame Islands. At 1.30 the inshore rescue boat launched...
SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd March, at 10.10 P.M., signal guns and rockets were fired by the Gull Lightship. The Vulcan steamtug and Bradford Life-boat went out, and were informed that a large flare light had been seen on the sands. They steered in...
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 5 November1995 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,770 times (an average of more than 15 launches a day) 1,089 lives were saved (an average of more than 3 a...
Category: Articles
RNLI Operations Director Michael Vlasto recently attended an International Maritime Rescue Federation meeting to address global lifesaving issues.
The Chilean lifeboat service in Valparaiso hosted the event and took the...
Category: Articles
OCTOBER 26TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 2.13 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht had had her top mast carried away and appeared to be anchored three miles south-east of Hayling Island. A moderate south-easterly breeze...
15th March. A steamer had gone ashore on Cardigan Island, but her crew of four scrambled to safety and were brought to the mainland by the life-saving apparatus. A letter of appreciation was sent to Mr. Joseph Soar, honorary secretary at St....