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The Torpedo Boat Destroyer Success

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

During a severe S.E. gale on the 27th December the Torpedo-boat Destroyer Success ran ashore on the rocky coast at Kingsbarns, about six miles from St. Andrews. The vessel was steaming south, and in the darkness, without any shore lights to...

BUSY YEAR FOR COASTGUARDS

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

A record number of 2,878 people were rescued as a result of action by H.M.

Coastguards in the 12 months ending 31st March, 1969. This was 379 more than in the previous 12 months. Coastguards took part in 2,444 rescue...

Category: Articles

Skylark

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing...

The Baby of the Fleet 25 Years on By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND LAUNCHES—an average of 1,000 a year and the lives of nearly 11,000 men, women and children saved. This is the proud record of the 16ft (4.88m) D class inflatable lifeboat, preparing to celebrate her silver jubilee in...

Category: Articles

Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

RAMSGATE.—On the 2nd January, 1894,was blowing S. by E., and there was a good deal of swell on the sea. The Life- boat Ellen and Eliza, was promptly launched and on reaching the spot found that the barque Agerden haying lost her reckoning in...

Category: Services

Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), 1970 – it took the RNLI just 36 hours to provide 20 boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted to Dhaka to help those caught up in the flood disaster

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Transporting Carriage

Date: April 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 40

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 32

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

Jean Horsley

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock...

November

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...

Category: Services