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Sea Gull, of Dublin

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. At four in the morning a yacht was reported to be dragging her anchor on to a lee shore, off the breakwater. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The life-boat crew assembled and when distress...

Frequent Flyer

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.

Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...

Category: Articles

Toolstation sponsors flood rescue

Date: 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 595 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2011

A major tool supply company has pledged its support to the RNLI Flood Rescue Team (FRT) – for the next 3 years.

Toolstation, with more than 80 branches around Britain, has already made a significant contribution to the...

Category: Articles

Schesaplana

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...

Feature: Swiftwater Rescue

Date: Spring 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 572

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...

Category: Articles

Speed, skill, survival

Date: Autumn 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 613 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2015

The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach

Mawgan Porth Beach...

Category: Articles

Members' Page

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...

Category: Meetings

Your Letters

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Licencing for sailors? is interesting to speculate on what would happen if we were ever to lose our traditional freedom to go to sea.

Many lifeboat callouts are for seafarers in small craft powered by unreliable outboard...

Category: Correspondence

Kayaker on a knife edge

Date: Autumn 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 601 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2012

On an apparently ordinary day at the beach last Summer, a near tragedy was unfolding

It was just before midday on 30 August 2011 and a lone kayaker was enjoying the water off Sandsend,...

Category: Articles

Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

Awards on the Closing of Stations.

ALNMOUTH.

JOHN W. STEWART, 12J years second cox- swain and 8$ years a member of the crew, a life-boatman's certificate of service, and a pension.

Category: Awards