LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...

Howth lifeboat crew rushed to the aid of a woman whose car went over the harbour wall on 10 January. She escaped from the car and members of the public helped her to safety. The lifeboat crew then gave first aid to the woman, who was having...

Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.

He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 5th of August, 1957, the life-boat Watkin Williams took part in a combined helicopter and life-boat exercise. At the end of the exercise a strong easterly wind sprang up, with a very rough sea, and it was impossible...

On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...

Lifeboat Lottery The £1M barrier has been broken! The Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery brought in more than £1M, making the final income for the year £3.9M. This is a magnificent total and more than half as much again as that for...

H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...

DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...