LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
MAY 12TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A small yacht which had left the Cumberland coast for the Isle of Man was overdue, but got into Douglas without help. - Rewards, £9 1s..
Wizard of Oz
5 January 2012: RNLI Lifeguard Ross Leighton saved a family of four from a dangerous rip current off Bennett’s Beach in New South Wales, Australia. He was lifeguarding down under for our Winter, but is usually...
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Extraordinary people
RNLI volunteers were recognised with the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award in December 2012.
We’re one of just 60 organisations to receive this one-off award that marks the Jubilee and Olympic year.<...
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A Steamer (1)
JANUARY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CLOUGHEY, AND NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A steamer had gone ashore. The life-boats searched in the fog without finding her, for she had got off and had gone on her way to Belfast. - Rewards :...
An Aeroplane (190)
DECEMBER 27TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Flares had been seen and an aeroplane was believed to be in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and later it was learned that a German aeroplane had been...
A Rowing Boat (3)
AUGUST 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A small rowing boat which had gone out the previous evening had not returned, but she put in to Abersoch while the life-boat was searching. - Rewards : £5 14s..
An Aeroplane (188)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - ABERDEEN. An unknown aeroplane was reported to have come down six miles from Bridge of Don, but nothing was found. The next day the life-boat again searched for wreckage, but without result. - Rewards : £14 11s. 6d.,...
Wilhelmina
MARCH 28TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Flares had been reported and the Dutch motor vessel Wilhelmina was found, apparently disabled, but the captain denied making distress signals. - Rewards, £16 17s. 6d.
None (45)
AUGUST 25TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. A woman had been carried out of her depth while bathing, but she was drowned before the life-boat could reach her,and her body was recovered from the shore.
- Rewards, £8...
Slava (1)
MARCH 16TH. - BARRY DOCK , GLAMORGANSHIRE, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. The Yugo-Slav steamer Slava, of Susak, had been torpedoed five and a half miles N.E. of Foreland Point, near Lynmouth, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. -...