LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.

I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...

THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...

ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...

NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.

A strong...

DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...

The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast

It’s the end of a blustery October day in...

As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...