LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pendine

3-PEAK SUMMIT FOR THE RNLI

In June, Shelley Phillips from Pendine raised an impressive £445 completing the National Three Peaks Challenge for the RNLI. The challenge calls for mountaineers...

JANUARY 21ST. - PORTASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 10.10 P.M. the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay. The night was dark, with an easterly gale and a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte...

MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although...

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Maximise your Membership The active membership of the Institution continues to grow, with the latest figures showing almost 28,000 Governors and some 140,000 Shoreline members.

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APRIL 21ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A canoe which had put off from Clymping with two on board had not returned, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d.

Four sailing boats A NEAR GALE WAS BLOWING from the north when, at 1055 on Thursday, September 2, information was received that a catamaran was burning a red flare off St Ives Harbour entrance.

Visibility was only moderate,...

Wbitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— During the early morning of the 24th of March, 1951, the motor fishing boat, Lead Us, of Whitby, put out from Whitby with a crew of five. But the weather got worse and at 11.0 she was seen off...

When I mentioned at work that I was going to join Ballycotton lifeboat crew, they were so supportive. They know that I need to go home on the dot on training days. They also know I have to eat half an hour before I leave to ensure I’m not...