LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June 1971 to 31st August 1971: Launches 1,330, lives saved 787 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/8/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 94,443 from the Institution'...

MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...

4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...

No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...

STRUCK ROCK At 5.40 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the trawler Welsh Consort struck a rock at the entrance to Castlebay Harbour when leaving. She blew her siren continuously and the life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 6...

ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...

Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...

WICKLOW | 20 JUNE
When a woman slipped and fell while stepping ashore from a moored boat, it was lucky that RNLI Helm Vinnie Mulvihill was at hand. Vinnie was tending the Wicklow lifeboat when he heard shouting and realised that...