LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that two boats which he had been asked to keep under observation were making no headway.

As...

Again on the 27th October were the noble life-boat Bradford, and her consort, the steamer Aid, taken out on their mission of mercy. This time it was in response to signals of distress from the barque Emilie, of Swinemunde, which had drifted...

NOVEMBER 18TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.

A fishing boat’s engine had broken down, but the boat declined help and drifted to safety. - Rewards, £14 6s. 6d..

GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing lugger Dauntless, of Gourdon, was returning to port with her catch of fish on the afternoon of the 16th November.

The wind was blowing from the S.S.E.

and the sea,...

Fenit, Co. Kerry. At noon on the 22nd of January, 1959, the life-boat Hilton Briggs put out in a heavy swell to the help of the motor vessel Sheraton of Rotterdam. A gale was blowing from the north-north-east, and the tide was flooding. The...

Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....

The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?

Freedom of the Seas

Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...

Honorary Life Governor1 One new honorary life governor, MR. B. V.

HOWELL, M.B.E., has been appointed in recognition of his services to the Institution.

At the annual general meeting of the Institution on...