LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the after- noon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two local fishermen reported seeing an American Shooting Star trainer air- craft crash about three miles north- east of Margate pier. At...

Police Sergeant D. H. Carter and Police Constable A. E. Farley, of Bourne- mouth, have each received £5 under the terms of the Ralph Glister Award in recognition of their service in the Bournemouth IRB on 19th May, 1968, to a burning...

As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...

Rig supply vessel sinks after collision Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel St Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.

The lifeboat had been launched...

A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...

Lobster boat sunk THE LIGHTKEEPERS on Tory Island sent a message to the honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station at 2015 on Saturday, September 17, reporting that a half-decker lobster fishing boat had gone on the rocks. The crew of...

Fig. 4 (below): Plating of the first of the two prototype fast slipway lifeboats is complete and the hull has been turned through 180 degrees so that it is now right way up. A welder is at work attaching deck fittings to the deck stringer... - View image in PDF

Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...