LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Although the RNLI's main purpose is saving lives at sea, it also has the people and equipment available to make a difference in flash floods. As reported in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, members of the Workington lifeboat crew...

Plymouth, Devon. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the Queen's harbour master informed the coxswain that the coaster Lapwing, of London, was drifting out of control with engine failure six to seven miles...

IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.

on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...

Llanddulas, NORTH WALES,—On the same morning (14th May), the brigantine St. Olaf, of and from Mandal, Norway, laden with pit-props, for Connah's Quay, near Chester, capsized when about three miles out at sea, off Llanddulas, and her crew...

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Padstow, Cornwall - At 5.51 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a small yacht was reported in difficulties on the north side of Harlyn bay. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick slipped her moorings at 6.14 in a moderate north easterly breeze and a...

by Dave Trotter The launch of Padstow's Oakley class lifeboat featured in many RNLI publications and posters, but this is the scene brought up to date as 47-002, relief Tyne class Sam and Joan Woods, is launched during the summer of J988... - View image in PDF