LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The biggest single donation ever received by Port Talbot branch from the efforts of a single person is handed over by Philip Reed, a long distance swimmer. Last September he swam across Swansea Bav from Mumbles Head to Porthcawl, a distance... - View image in PDF

It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after receiving a call from the replica Longship Dyflin, based in... - View image in PDF

WHITBY.—At about 3 P.M. on the 11th January the wind blew a moderate gale from the E.N.E. with a heavy sea, and four fishing-cobles which had gone out in the morning were seen returning. As the wind and sea were increasing the foremost boat...

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...

January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...

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ROBERT ANTHONY FOALE of Hyde Park Junior School, Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, has won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the lifeboat service organized by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The competition was open to...