LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...

On the 19th August the 6,000-ton motor vessel Gunnaren, of Gothenburg, bound home from New York, ran ashore east of the lighthouse on Tarf, Swona Island, in a dense fog. She carried a crew of thirty-five and a general cargo. She sent out a...

Injured climber HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD received WOrd on the evening of Saturday August 17, 1985, that a climber had fallen and was injured on the Go-Garth cliffs, four miles west of Holyhead. Maroons were fired and at 2130 Holyhead's 44ft...

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.

Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...

Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...

ONE lesson which has emerged from the large deficit incurred last year is that the R.N.L.I. not only needs more money; it needs money from new sources. The work of the voluntary branches will always be the mainstay of the Institution's...

Although the Borough of Solihull Lifeboat Appeal formally closed in September of last year, money kept flooding in after that date and the total raised was £41,310.74.

The money will be used to purchase a new Atlantic... - View image in PDF

JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...