LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.5 in the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small steamer in New Harbour had signalled on her whistle for help. The motor life-boat A.E.D. left her moorings at 1.20 in a southerly...

Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1959, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Asia of Liverpool, which was then three miles south-south-west of Carn Du, was making for...

Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the morn- ing of the 20th of March,1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a 30-feet ex R.A.F. launch with two men on board was overdue on a passage from Portland to Torquay and that he had...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 22nd February the s.s. Brightside, of Middlesbrough, ran on to Shingle Bank, while bound from St. Kevern for London with a cargo of granite.

She was not in immediate danger, and preparations...

On the 8th November the Life-boat BeaucJiamp saved, in circumstances of considerable difficulty and danger, the crew of eight men from the lugger Palestine, of Banff, which, while making for Lowestoft from the fishing-grounds, stranded on...

The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.

Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.

THE BACK GARDEN of the harbourside house of Sir Max Aitken, whose name she now bears, was the unique setting for the naming ceremony of the RNLI's newest 52ft Arun class lifeboat at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Saturday May 2. The...