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Past and Present

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...

Category: Articles

Rnli News

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...

Category: Articles

Neal with Zoe, who bought the lifejacket that saved his life

Date: Summer 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 628 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2019

Category: Photographs

Special delivery

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - CORRECTION

Many thanks to reader Mark Harvey who contacted us about the main image for the Years of Their Lives feature in the last edition. According to our archive...

Category: Articles

Councillor Liz Simpson said: ‘Their kind-hearted dedication is really honourable, and they’re each very deserving of these awards.’

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 618 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2016/17

Category: Photographs

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Eastern Division Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio...

Category: Services

Margaret Elizabeth

Date: August 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 229

One of the worst gales that had been experienced for some years blew off Anglesey on the 8th January, and at 8.40 A.M. the ketch Margaret Elizabeth of Beaumaris stranded near Moelfre.

The Life-boat Star of Hope was promptly...

Pearl

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

— Shortly after 1 A.M. on 31st March a rocket and a flare were seen near Kettleness Point during a break in a thick fog. This was reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Hester BothscMld,vrho ordered the launch of the boat. She proceeded...

Welcome

Date: Autumn 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 613 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2015

Earlier this year, Hoylake launch volunteer Tracy Davies – pictured on the front page – became the first woman to qualify as an operator of the Shannon class lifeboat’s launch and recovery vehicle. Now she’s on call, ready to send the...

Category: Articles

Sixty-Two Rescued

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...

Category: Services