LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...

' THE MATE AND HIS DUTIES.' By flw late Capt. JOSEPH J. KELLY. Third Edition.

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IN our 29th...

ABOUT 2.45 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht Lorelei, which was one of the Mermaid class, capsized shortly after leaving Rush Harbour, Co. Dublin. Several people saw the incident and raised the alarm.

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Clovelly, and Appledore, Devon.-—-At 1.35 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1948, the Hartland coast- guard reported to Clovelly that the motor vessel Lerina, of Bideford, which takes supplies to Lundy Island, had dragged her anchors...

Clovelly, and Appledore, Devon.-—-At 1.35 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1948, the Hartland coast- guard reported to Clovelly that the motor vessel Lerina, of Bideford, which takes supplies to Lundy Island, had dragged her anchors...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.20 A.M.

on the 13th April the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on May Island. She was the steamer Island, of Copenhagen, bound, with about sixty-seven...

Canoes upset ST ABBS, Berwickshire, lifeboat on September 17, 1972, made a fast getaway when two canoes capsized in Coldingham Bay. The wind had been blowing from a northerly direction for several days and there was a considerable swell...

The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...