LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.

She sank in a...

FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...

The 15th International Lifeboat Conference took place at La Coruna, Spain in June this year. The RNLI was represented and, here, Public Relations Officer EDWARD WAKE-WALKER reports on the continuing dialogue between lifeboat societies from...

(right} is taken on a tour of inspection of Rotary Service by (I.) Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations RNLI, and (r.) Captain Peter White,. - View image in PDF

IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...

On trials and passage EVEN BEFORE a new lifeboat reaches her station she is very likely to have started her service to seafarers. The 33ft Brede lifeboat Caroline Finch, which was placed on service at Exmouth lifeboat station on August 4,...

News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.

The building's contemporary design follows the curve...

Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...