LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Working the capstan at Hastings.. - View image in PDF

Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.

It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF

FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...

When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …

In 2012, two men...

Valentla, Co. Kerry. — During bad weather in December, 1951, the Valentia Radio Station was damaged and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs decided to establish an emergency station at Cork. On the 30th it asked the life-boat station if...

Amble, Northumberland. At 9.10 on the morning of the 29th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Sunshine of Port Seton was making for Amble. Because of the severe weather it was suggested that...

PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly...

FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...