LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CABIN CRUISER SANK Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.40 p.m. on xyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress 5! miles north-west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left at 3.50 in a...

THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...

A large Greek steamer named the Othon Stathatos, of Ithaca, carrying a crew of twenty-three hands, and bound from Penarth to Athens with a cargo of 6,000 tons of coal, struck a submerged rock about two miles north of Pendeen and commenced to...

A MESSAGE was received at St. Mary's, Scillies, through the St. Ives coast- guard, shortly after half-past one in the afternoon of 28th November, that the schooner Mynonie R. Kirby, of London, bound for the South Seas, was drifting...

Below left: An RAF SAR helicopter with the Trearddur Bay inshore lifeboat. - View image in PDF

The Walton and Frinton motor life-boat" E.M.E.D." refuelling after the service to the " Esterel.". - View image in PDF

The RNLI is out and about this Spring. There’s a fascinating exhibition on tour, our big annual awards ceremony, and lots of fundraising fun to be had – see you there!

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