LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 18th of May, 1950, the Inspector of the Irish Lights telephoned to ask the life-boat to go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel and bring ashore a lightkeeper whose father was dying....

New Quay’s Mersey and D class lifeboats were requested to launch at 3.45pm on 1 February after reports that a parachutist, jumping from 150m cliffs, had crashed.

The lifeboats searched the area between the Old Lookout and...

RNLI lifeboats launched more than 8,000 times in 2012 in a year of poor weather and heavy rainfall. Despite the weather, our lifeguards helped more than 16,000 people.

Meanwhile, the RNLI Flood Rescue Team had their...

IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.

The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...

Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...

The Case tractor, T29, was the third type L to be converted for use by the RNU by the Roadless Traction Co and had been stationed at Redcar from 1938 to 1957 and then at Filey until 1964. It was sold to a York farmer who used it for pulling... - View image in PDF

These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 1.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1966, news wasreceived that a boat had been swamped off Lavernock Point and her three occupants were in the water. At 1.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a strong...