LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.

Twenty minutes later the life-boat William...

NOVEMBER 1989: Mrs R.E. Morley, honorary secretary of Bolton Ladies' Guild from 1959 to 1970 and vice president from 1974 until her death..

THE South Holland Life-boat Society was so pleased with the result of its inquiries as to the success of the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION'S Steam Life-boats that it recently instructed Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick,...

Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...

On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...

No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.

Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...

ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...