LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sir Alec Rose, president of Havant branch, by David Shutte, of Whitbread Solent Inns. Jim Cadman (I), managing director of Swan Housewares, also donated a further £500 worth of goods for future fund-raising.. - View image in PDF

Shore-boats rescued 1,168 lives, for whose rescue the Institution rewarded the rescuers.

Auxiliary rescue-boats, established by the Institution, rescued 42 lives..

THE twenty-seventh Annual Life-boat Matinee, organized by Mr. Francis Laid- ler, took place on 10th November last.

The programme included some twenty " turns," among those who took part being the principal...

RNLB Barham, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, when on station in May 1980. She is named in memory of HMS Barham which was torpedoed in 1941 and more than half her cost was provided by a bequest from the brother... - View image in PDF

Driver saved from sinking digger Helensburgh - Scotland South Division Helensburgh's Atlantic 21 carried out an unusual rescue on 29 May 1989 when a survivor was safely landed from a mechanical digger which had become bogged down with a...

Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 11.15 p.m. on zoth January, 1966, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the Border Sailing Club rescue boat, with one man on board her, was adrift on the rocks at the west side of the bay, her...

LONG TOW IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising...

THE year of grace 1902 has come and gone, but in reviewing it we have to acknowledge that it has not been an altogether exhilarating and encouraging one for charity workers generally, and that the Life-boat Saturday Fund cannot,...