LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil...

North East A Tyneside lifeboat appeal has been launched in the North East under the patronage of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland to contribute towards the cost of the 52ft Arun lifeboat which has recently gone on station...

Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...

Geraldine Grainger is the RNLI’s new College Principal and Head of Training. Geraldine joined the charity from the John Lewis Partnership, where she was responsible for the training, learning and development of 28,000 partners. She also has...

About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...

JULY 27TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.

Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8...

During a water safety demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall, the local IRB and the Padstow life-boat, with other organisations, combined to show what happens when, for example, a sailing dinghy is upset. Here the Port Isaac IRB is making for... - View image in PDF

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