LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 12.45 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1948, the steam trawler Barry Castle, of Swansea, left Castlebay har- bour, but a quarter of an hour later she ran aground at the entrance. She blew her steam...

Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Sea Venom aircraft with a crew of two had ex- ploded in the air off Lilstock one mile from the shore....

AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that two persons were clinging to a small sailing boat which had capsized. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth, but it was raining hard...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.— At 11.10 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1948, a message came from The Mumbles, through Burnham Radio, that a small boat, with two men on board, was drifting in distress toward the Mixen Shoal, off Mumbles...

Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...

Last issue we reported on eight RNLI staff and volunteers who were honoured by HM The Queen in the 2015 New Year Honours list. We thought we’d captured them all, but unfortunately one slipped through the net: Chris Fonteyn MBE JP. Chris was...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...