LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...

0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.

Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...

ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...

A gallon bottle of Cognac brandy, presented by Martell, made £250 for the RNLI in a draw organised by John Hudson (I.), station honorary secretary at Port St Mary, Isle of Man. Alan Bell, an announcer with Manx Radio, won the prize and... - View image in PDF

The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...

Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...

Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surfThe Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two...

Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...