LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For the first time in decades, the RNLI has a new award for lifeboat crew members and lifeguards Sitting alongside the traditional Gallantry Medals, Thanks on Vellum and Framed Letters of Thanks is now the Framed Certificate for First Aid....

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SEPT. l5TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.20 P . M . the coastguards telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor life-boat...

A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal boat. However the cost of owning one in their retirement seemed...

ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...

AT the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.

CHARLES G-. TURNEB, G.B., Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had been no...

FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALKS.—A small screw steamer and a schooner had been at anchor in Fishguard roadstead for some days, being unable to go round St. David's Head, owing to the strong westerly winds.

On the night of the...

All Severn class lifeboats will go on station with the new pattern side keel fitted. - View image in PDF