LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Michael Stephens (ex-Exmouth) has been placed in the reserve fleet along with the Crawford and Constance Conybeare (ex-Falmouth). The Gertrude (ex-Holy Island) has gone to Exmouth, and the Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will (ex-Cromarty) is...

AFTER the reading of the Annual REPORT and Balance Sheet the following Resolutions were carried unanimously :— Moved by Ca.pt. A. ELLICE, R.N., Comptroller-General of the Coast-Guard, and seconded by Colonel BLANSHARD, C.B., Commandant of...

Lifeboat naming ceremonies are always significant occasions, but few have attracted as much attention as the one that took place at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, Anglesey, in February.

The world’s media mingled with over...

Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...

IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...

A DEPLOBABIE accident, which resulted j in the loss of two lives, occurred at; Fraserburgh, oa the 28th April. The j Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left: Buryhead the previous night, bound for j Fraserburgh to be " demobilised,"...

RNLI lifeguards spent a week on the Isles of Scilly in September, training a group of locals in surf lifesaving.

The group of 12 can now provide safety cover at the sea-based events that are at the heart of Scillonian life...

RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...