LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain Hewitt Clark Silver Medal Coxswain Hewitt Clark and the crew of Lerwick's Arun rescued 67 seamen from a stranded factory ship in appalling weather conditions on 31 October 1994. The lifeboat had to go into a narrow opening... - View image in PDF

Every four years the lifeboat nations of the world gather at a different venue to share and exchange information and technical expertise.

The 16th Conference was held in early June 1991 at Oslo.

Edward...

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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M.

on the 20th August the motor fishing boats Galilee and Venus were expected in from fishing. The sea had gr.own rapidly during the morning, and was then breaking heavily outside' the...

Exmouth, Devon; Fenit (Tralee Bay), Co. Kerry; Dungeness, Kent; Longhope, Orkneys.

THE Exmouth naming ceremony was held on 29th August in the presence of nearly 8,000 people. Among those taking part in the ceremony were...

The RNLI’s historic archive has been recognised by UNESCO. Our founding documents, which date back to 1823, will become one of just 50 listed in the UK as part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme UK Register, preserving the world’s...

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen high and dry on the Ganfleet Sand, just above the lighthouses flying signals of distress. The Albert Edward...

At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...