LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dewsbury

YOUTH DIVE IN TO DROWNING PREVENTION

In 2017, Kumon Y’all, an organisation mobilising young Muslim people to give back to the community, approached the RNLI to seek safety advice for an upcoming...

CHILD AMONG FOUR RESCUED FROM YACHT Hoylake, Cheshire. Around 11.20 on the morning of the 30th July, 1962, a number of reports were received stating that a yacht had sunk off Sandhey slipway and that her crew were in the...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 7.25 on the evening of the24th of August, 1953, the Nells Point coastguard rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had been damaged in a storm and was...

JANUARY 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the afternoon of the 20th January the Athlone Broadcasting Station asked listeners to inform the life-boat authorities that a vessel was in distress. She was the Greek steamer Eleni, of...

Skegness Coxswain Paul Manin Heft) and Honorary Secretary Roland Broughton with the 'chart' of tha beach Regular checks locate soft patches and hollows to aid launching.. - View image in PDF

Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 4.40 p.m.

on loth June, 1967, information was received that a boat was flying distress signals five miles from Ballycotton. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, slipped...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the llth April the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat three miles S.W. by W. of Shoreham Harbour was burning flares. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and squalls of...

FOR the fifth year running the Institution has received a gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbered 494, or £1 Os. 7d.

A gift of 500 farthings, or 10s. 5d., which took two years to collect, has been...