LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

“WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL”. Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, it’s beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a...

RIG SERVICE IN 60 KNOT GALE AROUND 1.30 p.m. on 19th October, 1971, it was learnt that the crew of the drilling rig William Allpress were in need of assistance. The rig was anchored J mile off Rustington, Sussex, and had been in this...

Ditched aircraft AT 2225 on April 22, 1987 the station honorary secretary at Wick was alerted by Pentland Coastguard that a Buccaneer aircraft had ditched in the sea more than 21 miles north east by east of Wick.

The 48ft...

Together we build a better engine Lifeboats Roval National Lifeboat Institution Royal Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years.

These engines have been specially modified to the...

PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate...

Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.

—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.25 p.m. on 3ist March, 1967, the m.v.

Summer Isle reported that she wished to hand over a body which had been recovered from the sea. She was making for Nab tower. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...

THE Institution has received a gift of £100 from Tasmania for the benefit of the life-boat station at Southend- on-Sea. The donor's aunt lived in Southend for many years and was a contributor to the branch..