LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...

THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...

Lifeboat station histories The Story of the St Davids Lifeboats by Dr George Middleton Doctor Middleton's 42- page A5 booklet chronicling the history of the lifeboats in this delightful corner of Wales is now in its fifth...

SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...

JUNE 6TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

Airmen had baled out from a British bombing aeroplane returning from the invasion of France, but some of them had already been rescued by Portland fishermen. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d. (See...

The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...

At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...

In 1940 the fast motor life-boat at Dover was taken over by the Admiralty to be used in rescuing airmen brought down in the sea. The motor life-boat at Plymouth has now been taken over bv the Ministry of War Transport, and the Aberdeen No. 2...