LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

Next generation join dads on Douglas crew

Douglas Lifeboat Station, Isle of Man, has a history of lifeboating families. Sir William Hillary, who founded the...

THREE SEARCHES FOR AN AEROPLANE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 8.12 in the evening of the 27th of June, 1947, the Tara coastguard reported that an Aerovan aeroplane on a flight to New- townards was believed to have crashed one mile east of Craig...

No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...

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BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Sen Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...

MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...

IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...

The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.

There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...