LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portrusb, Co. Antrim.—At 6.47 in the morning of the 26th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress on Rathlin Island, and the life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 7.5. A fresh west-south-west gale was blowing,...

Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp

With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th August, two youths, aged 15 and 14 respec- tively, took a boat from her moorings in the harbour and proceeded out to sea.

OH getting clear of the harbour, it was noticed by...

PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case...

Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...

ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...

By Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.founder, Sir William thus a few months THE Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer was founded in August, 1825, by the joint efforts of two members...

Four days afterwards the boat again did good service. The brig. E. J. D. of Nantes, was driven by the tempestuous weather on a lee shore, and was at length forced to run for Scarborough Harbour.

In making the attempt,...