LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The ketch Alexandra, of Chester, left that port on 31st January bound for Millom with a cargo of coal and next day stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. For three days every effort was made to get the vessel off, and about thirty tons of cargo...

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.17 on the afternoon of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two sailing dinghies had capsized in St. Bride's Bay off Nolton and...

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Stepping up the safety message

The RNLI’s thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones to the sea in 2016. A summer of hot weather...

When lifeboat volunteer Duncan Wallace headed off on his Winter honeymoon, he left his crew pager behind – but his lifesaving skills were still called upon 5,000 miles from home.

Duncan (pictured), a Newquay lifeboat crew...

EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...

Recruiting Y.L.A. Members at Shows by Alasdair Garrett MEMBERSHIP of the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association has now reached 4,700—an increase of 2,000 in the last seven months. Y.L.A. members and other supporters of the...

Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...

BY the first week in February, we passed the 1,000th registration of members subscribing direct to Life-boat House, and since the Shoreline Scheme was started on 31st October, 1972, we have received over £12,000 from subscriptions and...