LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...

Harwich, Essex - At 11.4 a.m. on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties 500 yards off the Sunk light vessel.

The crew of the light vessel had floated a line to the yacht and this had been...

Some of the 100 participants of Penwortham, Lancashire, branch's sponsored swim are checked in by Mrs Openshaw and Mrs M. P.

Dewhurst, branch honorary secretary. This, like so many sponsored swims, was very successful... - View image in PDF

THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight...

Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.

The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...

Raising the roof! ... and the walls, and everything else come to that! This is one way of dealing with a boathouse which is surplus to requirements - in this case at Number.

The terms of the RNLI's lease dictated that... - View image in PDF

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.

The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...

As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …

Sun and sand had attracted...