LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...

The Princess of WSife* life-boat at Holyhead saved 34 persons fewft the ship Lydia Williams, of Liverpool, whjoh. tank on Salt Island; 12 persons from the bamj/jr Bayadere, of Rouen: and 7 persons from, WJ.

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Appledore, Devon.—The ketch Ceres, of Bude, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of slag on the 24th November, That night, when in Croyde bay, she sprang a bad leak, and foundered. Her crew of two men were rescued.—Rewards, £19 12*. (For...

Every year many delegates from overseas are welcomed at RNLI headquarters, Poole. One page from the visitors' book, covering just three weeks in March, 1979, records signatures of 12 visitors from the USA, Chile, China and the United... - View image in PDF

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

THE first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race in aid of the R.N.L.I, started at 11.00 hours on 2nd September, six cables north of the entrance to Granton harbour on the Firth of Forth. The race was the first international...

Arun at sea for 14 hours on three services to yachts in trouble Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell was at sea for almost 14 hours in one 25-hour period when she received three separate calls from yachts in trouble on 9...

AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.

Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.

Capsizing is not an everyday...