LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eight Lloyds Bank staff from Petersfield branch, their friends and customers together with an East Hampshire Post reporter made a sponsored parachute jump last April.

The adventurous group, who raised £750 for... - View image in PDF

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving in 1975 has been awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic David Kennett of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the rescue on September 14 of the crew of five of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour. Coxswain...

Lifesaving is not just about pulling people out of the water. Saving lives by changing the attitudes and behaviour of children and young people has always played a vital role in the RNLI’s work.

As early as 1860 the...

LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...

ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 20th July, the pilot-cutter Mary, of Bristol, was seen riding in a dangerous position, while a strong gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea.

Every movement of...

Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1949, a vessel was seen to be stopped about five miles oft shore, and it was thought that she was on Sheringham Shoal. The life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.25, in...

AFFINITY WITH 5* The Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the R1NLI with every transaction you...