LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers

The RNLI has no...

THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...

FOR EXPERIENCED YACHTSMEN — HARD WEAR — USED BY R.N.L.I. INSHORE CREWS FOUL WEATHER GARMENTS are BRITISH DESIGNED BRITISH MADE from BRITISH MATERIALS and Manufactured in our own Factory EVETT SAILWEAR LTD.

TIMBER HALL WORKS...

HARWICH.—On the 16th February, at 6 P.M., information was brought by a Ramsgate smack that a large vessel was ashore on the Long Sand, and that the crew were in great danger. The Life-boat Springwett immediately proceeded there, but, on...

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 15th July a telephone message was received by the coastguard that a vessel was drifting to the westward with a signal of distress flying, and asking for the assistance of the Newquay...

Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.

—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...

GIRL FOUND IN WATER BY TANKER'S BOAT Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.28 on the night of the 6th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard by the crew of the tanker Hamilton Trader, which...