LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.

APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...

Hanna Nuuttila, RNLI Crew Member from New Quay, Cardiganshire, is the RNLI Photographer of the year 2008. Hanna’s winning entry shows Pwllheli’s Mersey class lifeboat Lilly and Vincent Anthony going to the aid of the yacht Galasma in force 8...

IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...

EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...

Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...

At 8.10 A.M.

on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...

DR JAMES HALL of Deal has made many trips by life-boat to ships in the Channel when a seaman has needed urgent attention. He has often gone out in heavy weather to perform operations in the most difficult conditions.

During...

Lifeboats and wrecks of Cornwall Spend a long and relaxing weekend in Cornwall, learning about wrecks and lifeboats.

Based at St. Ives. two weekends will be held in February and March 1979.

concentrating...