LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Peel, Isle of Man - At 12.58 p.m. on I2th September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Rosinbhir, of Liverpool, was reported to have broken down six miles north west of Peel. The life-boat Clara and Emily Bar-well was launched at 1.25 in a...

Hail ... to the new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, City of Belfast (above), recently stationed at Donaghadee, County Down. So far, some £173,000 of the £390,000 it cost to build her has been defrayed by a special appeal launched by the... - View image in PDF

Hastings’ relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright was called out on two medevacs in the same week.

On 12 March, the lifeboat crew brought a fisherman safely ashore, having stabilised his injured ankle. This was the...

TYNEMOUTH | 30 MARCH
The skipper of a 28-tonne trawler radioed for help when its propeller fouled in fishing gear, leaving the three-man crew adrift 12 miles off Whitley Bay. Tynemouth’s Severn crew towed them to safety, arriving...

I just felt I had to put pen to paper after reading the recent article on Storm Force membership for children. It referred to the young man who won a competition 20 years ago by creating Stormy Stan the lifeboatman – well, I happen to be...

As it is considered that the periodical exercise of the crews of life-boats is very essential, it is hoped that the several Local Committees in connexion with the National Shipwreck Institution, will pay particular attention to that part of...

1st January Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...

Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...