LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three saved from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to the yacht Supenramp...

The George Gordon Moir Life- boat saved six of the crew of the steamer Topaz, of Glasgow, shortly after midnight on the 14-15th January. It appears that the steamer, which was bound to Glasgow with a cargo of pig-iron, struck Burrow Head and...

The Service to the Lee Bay.

ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...

THE Life-Saving Service of the United States comprised at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1904, 273 stations, no increase in the number having taken place during the year. Of those stations 196 were situated on the...

As briefly reported in the July edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, The Duke of Windsor, who died on 28th May, 1972, was for many years actively associated with the R.N.L.I., especially between 1919 and 1936 when he served as President of the...

Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...

— On the evening of the 22nd January, the schooner Ann Mitchell went ashore near Fleetwood.

The new life-boat, not long before placed there by the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was immediately launched, and taken in...

THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.

The quickest, and therefore the most...