LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to the following, on their retire- ment : SAMUEL THOMAS, 4f years coxswain, and 14£ years second...

RNLI Beach Lifeguards currently operates only in the South West of England, but the RNLI is working hard to ensure the development of lifeguarding all around the coastThe RNLI is committed to maintaining its volunteer ethos. This does not...

Relief D class inflatable lifeboat. City of Derby, (D408) is shown crashing through waves at Dunbar where she was on relief duty between February and July 1995.. - View image in PDF

THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...

Not under command A MESSAGE came to Yarmouth Coastguard from Norfolk Police at 1700 on Wednesday August 12, 1981, to say that a speedboat was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach, Heacham, and a child had been hit; an...

NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...

JULY 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.35 in the morning the Arklow smack St. Gerrade put into Rosslare Harbour and reported that a yacht was sinking on the North Dogger Bank, Wexford Bar. The skipper had tried, but without success,...

Inspired by winter gales and accounts of shipwrecks at sea, the children of Whittington Oval Junior School, Stechford, Birmingham, decided to help the RNLI and collected £281 entirely on their own initiative. Ideas included sponsored... - View image in PDF