LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In May we’ll be celebrating the achievements of RNLI volunteers and supporters at the Annual Presentation of Awards. It’s all happening at the Barbican Hall, London, on 21 May 2015. The Annual General Meeting starts at 11.30am and the awards...

On the 14th November, the smack Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow, was observed to be fast drifting towards the rocky shore, west of Bude- haven, in a dismasted and unmanageable state. A high surf was setting into the entrance of Budehaven at the...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th November, while the wind was blowing freshfrom the S.S.E., fifteen vessels came to anchor in the bay, being unable to get round St. David's Head. Some were in the most exposed and dangerous part...

Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—-At six o'clock on the evening of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in need of help a quarter of a mile south-east of Sheringham.

At 6.22 the life-boat Foresters Cen-...

Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker British Aviator and the motor vesselCrystalJewel, both of London, had been in collision eight...

On Sunday evening, 9th March, at about half-past six o'clock, the pilots on the look-out discovered a small steamer to the S. of the harbour. A heavy gale from S.S.E. was blowing at the time, and the sea was rapidly increasing. The...

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 428 lives by the Life- Boats in 1893, and of 170 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which...