LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.

Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...

Drowning prevention across borders has been part of the RNLI’s vision since our charity’s foundation

It doesn’t respect borders. It holds no prejudice for one skin colour over another. It will not favour a shout for help...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1955, the St. John Ambulance Brigade asked if the life-boat would fetch a sick man from Sark. As the local marine ambulance was out of commis- sion and no other...

Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...

DORNOCH FIRTH AND EMBO.—Signals of distress having been seen on the evening of the 20th January, the Life-boat Daisie was launched, and found the Come On, an open fishing-boat belonging to Gardenstown, Port of Banff, with a crew of six men,...

A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.

The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...

DURING March, life-boats went out on service 45 times and rescued 10 lives.

A LISTING TANKER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S...

Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...