LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...

ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...

NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.

On the 12th September a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up. About fifty fishing boats were lying at anchor in the roads, and were in great danger of being driven ashore. Part of their crews had landed with their fish, and as they were...

During a whole S.E. gale on the 1st October, signals of distress were made from the yacht Oyane, of Cork, lying at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat T. P. Hearne was very smartly launched and pro- ceeded to the yacht, which they found in a...

— Soon after daybreak on the 1st May some of the fishing cobles went off to their lobster and crab-pots. About 6 A.M. the N.N.E. wind increased to a moderate gale and the sea became very heavy.

A good look-out was kept, and...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, 1958, a message was received from 1115 Marine Craft Unit, Royal Air Force, that one of the unit's air-sea rescue launches had broken adrift from her moorings...