LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Above right - the stricken gas fuel oil tanker, Blackf riars. - View image in PDF

Haylmg Island - fighting a battle against the shingle.. - View image in PDF

OCT. 22ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.35 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer S.S. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W. Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked S.S. Mahratta. A moderate N.E. breeze was...

Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...

FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.

Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...

Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann speeds away from SS Canberra with her 'medivac' casualty, seen being transferred in the inset photo.. - View image in PDF

On the night of the 27th March the care- taker of the Board of Trade's Rocket Apparatus reported that a vessel in the Gold Top Roads was signalling for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat William Roberts were promptly assembled and the...

In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?

The Mersey class lifeboat...