LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the first fifteen months of war life-boats rescued 2754 lives.

They rescued more lives in these fifteen months of war than in the last seven years of peace. They have rescued on an average 42 lives a week. In the war of...

In the first twenty-one months of war life-boats have rescued 3816 lives.

They have rescued more lives in the twenty-one months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 42 lives every week..

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ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE Landing Craft G.16.

On the 25th April, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a survivor from H.M.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM WATTS H. WILLIAMS was awarded the bronze medal..

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1957, the harbour authorities reported that a fishing vessel was anchored in a dangerous position about one mile outside the harbour. The life-boat Howard Marri/at...

DUTCHMEN IN DINGHY Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, five Dutch fishermen left Ballycotton harbour in a rubber dinghy to return to their ship which was anchored with twelve other Dutch trawlers in Ballycotton Bay....

SEVENTEEN crew members of life-boat and inshore rescue craft at stations around Britain are to receive awards from the Royal National Life-boat Institution for their recent actions in saving lives.

The men, operating from...

Raymie Sinclair of Kirkwall was given a bottle of whisky to raffle for the lifeboats; £20 was raised but when the winning ticket was drawn no one could read the name on the ticket. The bottle was therefore raffled again and brought in a...