LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The ketch Charles Francis of and for Plymouth from Newport, Mon., with a cargo of coal, in taking the harbour too early on the tide on the evening of the 14th January, ran ashore on the Doombar Sand. The wind was blowing...

RNLI Directory To advertise in the RNLI Directory next issue, please contact Leah Fitz-Henry on 01225 465060 or email [email protected]. Travel in luxury on board Patricia as she completes her vital work maintaining navigation...

Deb Graham, daughter of Exmouth coxswain Keith Graham, helped mark a special occasion when she went aboard Exmouth's Trent class lifeboat during the traditional Christmas Day swim off Exmouth beach last year.

Deb, sadly... - View image in PDF

Further to our previous coverage of RNLI shoreworks, we can report that the charity is wrapping up its appeal to fund a new boathouse at Exmouth, Devon, now that it has reached its target.

Exmouth’s facilities are much in...

Contents 3 Lifeboat Services 4 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 9 Volume XLIV XT 1 Central Appeals Committee 16 Number 452 Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld, Poole 16 Operation Lifeboat 17 Family Profile by Joan Davies...

Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...

It's a dog's life...

...for Molly When the crew of Walmer's D class inflatable lifeboat received a report from Dover Coastguard that a dog had fallen some 150ft over a cliff about three miles from the station...

The Life-boat on this station was replaced by a new boat in /September 1872. The boat thus super- seded rendered its last service on the 26th August, on which day it put off and saved the crew of 9 men from the fishing- lugger New Button, of...