LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 11.22 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been an explosion on board a fishing vessel. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 11.38 in a smooth sea. The tide was flooding....

A new life-boat service has recently come into being. This has been formed in the Union of South Africa and is known as the National Sea Rescue Institute of South Africa. The organisation is a voluntary one and aims to establish some 38 life...

Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.

on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...

Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...

The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...

David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF

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The Chemring SC4 Radar Corner Reflector Developed in conjunction with the RNLI and adopted by RNLI exclusively (Stores ref D1/3016) for use on their high performance Lifeboats in both inshore and offshore waters.

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