LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...

DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.

At...

Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account...

Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...

RNLI crew members from Brighton, Littlehampton and Poole took part in two displays at the last ever Royal Tournament at Earls Court on 22 July.. - View image in PDF

Shortly after 11 A.M. on the 5th October a small boat was observed about four miles to the N.E.of Buckie Harbour, evidently in dis- tress. By aid of glasses it was seen that the sail had been blown away and that the occupant was holding up...

JAN. 2ND. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.

At 8 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light.

A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The S.S. Innisfallen...

LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...