LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Morecambe, Lancashire D class inflatable: March 8 (twice), April 22, May 12, 28 and 30 Mudeford, Dorset Relief D class inflatable: March 8, 16 and 28 D class inflatable: March 28, April 14, 30, May 2 (twice), 16 and 18 The Mumbles, West...

Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...

The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.

As usual the...

The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...

RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...

BY the time this article reaches the readers of the Life-boat Journal, the " Life- boat Saturday " season for the year 1896 will be practically over, so that we are in a position to gauge pretty accurately the advancement which has...

BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...

IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...