LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.

She sank in a...

WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...

APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London. Two of the...

Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor weather and...

TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.

The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...

Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...