LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Every ticket counts The Lifeboat Lottery has been raising essential funds for over 25 years. During this time it has raised in excess of £12M - so thank you to all those who have supported the RNLI in this way Thanks to changes in...

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...

At 8.30 A.M.

on the llth October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was flying signals of distress off Saltdean. The Michael Henry motor Life-boat was at once launched and proceeded to the spot; she found the brigantine...

Up to the end of June 1963 the new fast inshore rescue boats have been launched on service five times. The following is the list of services or at- tempted services: June 1st: Aberystwyth I.R.B. es- corted in a sailing boat in tow of a speed...

On the 5th December, the weather being thick, and a strong wind from W.S.W. blowing, a barque was observed in the bay, apparently making for the land. As soon as her dangerous po- sition was seen, the Agar Bobartes life-boat put off, through...

Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...

At 4.30 A.M. on the 5th December the barge Star, of Colchester, bound from Hull to Poole, was driven ashore at Winthorpe Gap, on the Lincoln- shire coast, during a fresh gale at E., with snow falling heavily. The Life-boat Henry Ingram, was...

Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..