LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Pride of Britain Awards brought RNLI lifesaving to the attention of millions at the end of October when Hartlepool RNLI volunteers received the ITV Daybreak Emergency Services Award.

The volunteers and Hartlepool...

LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Howth, Longhope, Lowestoft, Salcombe, Sheringham, Shoreham, St.

David's, Sunderland, Weston-super-Mare, Yarmouth (I. of W.),...

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was...

Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....

JUNE 18TH. - DUNGENESS. KENT. An Admiralty yacht’s engine had broken down, but her crew were able to repair it. - Rewards, £10 17s. 6d..

Yacht ablaze AT 2225 ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday September 8, 1984, Clyde coastguard reported a yacht aground, north of Hunterston power station. Three minutes later the relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, William Yeo, ontemporary...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .

Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.

photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF