LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...

Continuing a series of profiles of lifeboat classes By Keith Thatcher RNLI Naval Architect TI he RNLI's experiment with an in the Waveney class proved to Institution turned its attention to tended service...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...

ILB Launches on service during the months June, July and August 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 4 and July 1.

Aberdovey, Gwynedd 1, 23, July 2, 17, 19 (twice), 20, 23, 31, August 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19 (twice) and...

stinas ABERSOCH B-70ftAug2,5.13,15,16(x2), 18,19,20,21,29 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Aug7,13,29,Sep 1,7,9 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1144(52-41):Aug28 ON-1240(14-28):Aug 1,Aug 7, Aug 8,Aug 15 ALDEBURGH ON-1193(12-34):Aug 17,27,30 D-520:Aug 20,28(x2),30,Sep 4...

IT was announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat that the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, had issued an invitation to each Guild to nominate two of its members, the President or Chairman and the...

COXSWAIN John King of Bridlington has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry for a service described in the official report as 'long, frustrat- ing and hazardous'. At the end of it the life-boat saved the life...