LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....

Going quackers! The Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race, the proceeds of which will be split between the club and the RNLI. Each of the 700 ducks was sponsored at £1 a time and club member Mike Moore seems to be having... - View image in PDF

THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.

Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...

AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...

A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...

Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...

Exmouth A WARM SUMMER'S DAY on the South Devon coast, royal visitors and a naming ceremony were guaranteed to bring holidaymakers, local inhabitants and lifeboat supporters to every vantage point in and around the Exmouth docks when...

Millie Crangle is a 9-year-old RNLI supporter and the daughter of volunteer Crew Member Mark. Last year, she took on the Junior Great North Run to help save lives at sea – raising over £400 and
running 4km. Millie says: ‘It...