LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1986 lifeboats launched 3,150 times and saved 1,260 lives.

In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,899 times (an average of nearly 11 times a day) and saved 1,747 lives (an average of...

Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers 1995 The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations were... - View image in PDF

ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.

Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...

The lifeboat ale even comes highly recommended by 'The Sheep' who is Head Mower at the Aldeburgh lifeboat station garden!. - View image in PDF

Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.

—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.

A S.S.E....

TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping...

SIR Charles Baring, Bt, Colonel F. F.

B. St. George, C.V.O., and Mr. Norman E. Wales have joined the Committee of Management of the Institution.

Sir Charles Baring is the son of Sir Godfrey Baring who...