LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 75 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,866 February 29th, 1932 The Life-boat Service in 1931.

ALTHOUGH,...

Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.

Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...

Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.

of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...

FISHING VESSEL TOWED AFTER PROPELLERS CLEARED Amble, Northumberland. At 1.26 early on the morning of the llth July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amalthea of Seahouses needed help as her fishing...

DINGHY'S CREW SAVED At 9.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coxswain noticed that a sailing dinghy was being driven on to the lee shore of Ireland's Eye by a near gale force westsouth- westerly wind. It was low...

Nine rescued A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY, With One man on board, was seen by HM Coastguard at 2018 on Sunday, July 4, some three miles north east of Beaumaris lifeboat station, drifting out to sea with the freshening offshore wind and ebbing...

Volunteers Ian and Sue Bell have rather an unusual role with the RNLI – and have raised over £47,000 towards saving lives at sea

This active retired couple take care of the diverse range...

The following article has been written for The Lifeboat by an officer in the Salvation Army, while, the note attached to it gives some general particulars about the Norwegian Life-boat Service, which we haw received from its...