LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ireland Division Harbour tug to the rescue AT ABOUT NOON on Saturday, January 12,1974, the Royal Ulster Constabulary were told that a small dinghy was in difficulties off Ballgalley Head. Police Sergeant D. McCutcheon drove out to the Head...

The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...

THE following essay was adjudged the best in a competition organised by the Institution and open to boys and girls up to the age of eleven in Great Britain and Ireland. It was written by Winefride Claire Davies, of the Old Colwyn County...

Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...

On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...

Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...

Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...

Launches 70 Lives rescued 107

AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...