LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

The Life- boat Henry, stationed at this place, per- formed her first errand of mercy on the 28th June. It appears that a boat for the use of the packet agent there had been brought over in tow of the Ilfra- combe steamer, and was cast off,...

You can raffle a gallon of White Horse anywhere; this bottle of whisky, donated by its distillers, raised £230.50 at Campbeltown Agricultural Show last August. The picture shows Campbeltown ladies' guild president, Mrs A. Wallace,... - View image in PDF

YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

NOV. 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORK.

SHIRE. At about 7 P.M. information was received from the Withernsea coastguard that a vessel was making S.O.S. signals on her foghorn from the position of the Danish steamer Canada which had...

It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.

Cdr Swann first joined the Institution's...

As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?

When a warm afternoon turned to cool...