LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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• In 1983 was published the first part of the late Grahame Farr's comprehensive Lists of British Lifeboats, covering non self-righting, pulling and sailing boats from 1775 to 1916. Before his death later...

No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: May 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 15 and May 26 (four times) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21 :Mait:h29, 31 (fourtimes), April 12, 20, 24. May 4 (twice) and 25 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Cclass...

A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.

Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...

coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...

The fine traditions of Newhaven lifeboat crews were remembered when the station's new Severn class lifeboat was named after the RNLI Chairman and his wife during a moving ceremony on 6 May.. - View image in PDF

The Swanage branch of the R.N.L.I. has been presented with a large coloured print of David Cobb's painting of the scene off Anvil Point on 22nd October, 1966, when a Norwegian freighter, with survivors from a yacht, met the Swanage...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 26th day of March, 1887, The Right Honourable Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., First Lord of the...