LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Offshore is a new grade of RNLI membership, intended especially for those who use the sea - rates and details are on the following page.

Offshore members receive various benefits - including discounts on marine...

Not a dry eye in the boathouse

Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...

Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At noon on the 12th January intelligence was received that a vessel had hoisted signals of distress in Derbyhaven Bay. The Life-boat Thomas Black was taken on her carriage to Darbyhaven, where she was launched and...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 3.50 p.m. on 9th November, 1969, news was received that a motor boat was drifting in the bay about one mile north east of Ramsgate and was signalling for assistance. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety...

Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.46 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1958, a message was received by the honorary secretary that calls for help had been heard coming from a boat off Pentine Head. At 7.5 the no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick...

BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...