LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 5.35 P.M.

on the 3rd October, 1938, a message was received from the East Pier that two picket boats from H.M.S. Franklin, which was lying in Margate Roads, had left harbour to return to her, but had...

The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI

Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...

At 7 A.M. on the 4th March the fishing cobles put to sea in a S.E. wind with a nasty sea.

Two hours later the weather became worse, the wind increasing to a gale, and it was decided to launch the Life- boat Hollon the Third...

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 20th February, while a strong breeze was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea, the pilots observed a schooner strike on the Causeway rocks.

The crew of the Life-boat...

On the evening of the 16th March the S.W.

wind at Holyhead is reported to have reached the force of a hurricane, and at 8.35 P.M. signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Fortuna, of Glasgow, and the ketch...

The London International Boat Show at Earls Court last January proved very successful for the RNLI and all the volunteers who helped to man the stand. The main exhibit, at first glance unusual for a boat show, was a tractor, or more...

The R.N.L.I, is the poorer through the death of Miss Pixie Iatthews. The daughter of the well-known actor, the late A. E. Matthews, she gave 10 years of whole-hearted service to the committee of the Shrewsbury branch. Whether she was...

BOYS RESCUED Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.7 a.m. on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boat from a pilot vessel with two boys on board had broken down, was unlit and drifting up river. At 2.35 the...