LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

neWs 21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.

In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a...

AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...

WE have received a copy of " The Life- Boat and Its Story," by Noel T. Methley (Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., price 7s. &d.) too late for review in this issue of the Life-boat Journal. We can, therefore, at the present moment,...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which a man was waving ap- peared to be in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. The life-boat Prudential left her moorings at 8.15...

The lifeboat service relies heavily on its network of branches, guilds and volunteer fundraisers to bring in the money, so it is important that the best tools for the job are readily available to those who need them.

The...

The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF

TROON, N.B.—This seaport town in Ayrshire having been suggested to the Institution as a desirable station for a Life- boat, and local co-operation having been afforded to the proposed undertaking, such a lx).it has accordingly been placed...

THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.

Coxswain...