LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sennen Cove
Sennen Cove's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Diana White, searches off Land's End after four schoolboys were swept from the cliffs on May 6, 1985. photograph by courtesy of Daily Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maratha Enterprise
Workington, Cumberland. At 7 p.m.
on I3th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Maratha Enterprise of Nassau.
The life-boat...
Atalanta
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE.—Signals of distress were shown by the yacht Atalanta, of Abersoch, which was dragging her anchors in St. Tadwall's Roads, while a moderate gale was blowing from S.W., accompanied by a rough sea and thick weather...
Johnno (1)
Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
Shaula
On Saturday June 13, at 0420, red flares were sighted east of the station by Ramsey Coastguard. It was an overcast morning with a gale force 8 blowingfrom the south. The sea was rough and it was an hour after low...
Welsh Lady
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 1.12 p.m. on 30th April, 1967, it was learned that a boat was on fire opposite Dyffryn, seven and a half miles north of Barmouth. The coastguard had been advised of the incident by a local resident.
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 21 August 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 2,362 times (an average of more than 10 launches a day) 583 lives have been saved (an average of more...
Category: Articles
Avondow
CREW TAKEN OFF At 2.50 p.m. on 9th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground on Boray Holm, Gairsay. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndmanputoutat^.s in a strong south-westerly wind and a rough...
A Dinghy (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.42 on the evening of the 23rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had overturned off Ballyreagh and that three people were in the water. There was a gentle north-...
Cape Wrath
On the after noon of the 13th October the Coxswain )f the Life-boat John and Henrietta ibserved a steamer take the ground on ,he Burbo Bank. The sea was rough it the time and appeared to make a ;lean breach over her. The Life-boat- men...