LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.

AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...

Left) Lifeboatmen Wearing Bulky Cork Lifejackets, As Depicted In A Nineteenth Century Oil Painting.

(right) the champagne breaks on the bow of 33ft Brede lifeboat RNLB Caroline Finch. photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

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PORT EYNOR, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—The s.s. Ethiopia, of London, in ballast from Hamburg for Fort Talbot, stranded at Oxwich Point in a very thick fog, a moderate S.W. breeze and a heavy ground swell, on the night of the 23rd February.

VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

AVAILABLE in a special memorial issue is the late Minnie Mitchelson Goodall's bright humane story, "Tales Told by a Squirrel", the royalties of which go to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Ideal for young folk, the...