LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Alarmed to see a boat which ap- peared to be in difficulties in heavy seas on I4th April, a public-spirited Blackpool shopkeeper reported the news to the life-boat station. Raising his binoculars to scan the sea, the boat- house attendant...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 14, May 4 and 5 Abersoch, Gwynedd April 9 and May 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 10, 12, May 4 and 16 Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire April 26 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 3, May 18 and 26 Bangor, Co Down May 3...

The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...

On the afternoon of 22nd July, 1970, after parting company with the Y.L.A.

chairman homeward bound in his Black Cygnet, I was on passage in our 7-ton sloop Ar-Men from FAbervrac'h bound for Roscoff. It was a fine sunny...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 9, 10, 19, 22, 26, July 3, 6, 7, 10, 13 (twice), 21, 27, 28, August 9, 10, 12 (twice), 13, 17, 20 (twice), 26, 28 and 30.

Abersoch, Gwynedd June 10, 26, July 1,10,12 (twice), 14,15,18, 21, 27, August...

Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1951 - 77,528 Foreign Life-boat Services BEFORE the war The Life-boat pub-...

THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...