LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Silver Medal Helmsman Ian Stringer of Eastbourne for the rescue of two men trapped under Eastbourne Pier in complete darkness, heavy seas and extremely difficult conditions - see The Lifeboat Winter 1997/98 for a full report of the... - View image in PDF

At the recent Hitchin and district branch AGM, Laura Fagg, senior area organiser for the Eastern region, presented silver badges to two committee stalwarts - souvenir secretary Mollie Russell and branch secretary Phil Parrish - for their... - View image in PDF

Since 1941 the Ladies' Unity Club, of Boston Manor, Baling, has presented the line-throwing pistol, searchlight and compass for the Aldeburgh No. 2 lifeboat, and the line-throwing pijtols for the life-boats at Sunderland and Newquay,...

The younger generation of RNLI members were also excited to meet 'Stormy Stan' - the colourful character from their own Storm Force News magazine - who roamed the aisles shaking hands with them.. - View image in PDF

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—12th August.

Four people who were marooned on the rocks near Pendine refused to be taken off by the life-boat, although warned that they would not otherwise be able to get away for some hours.—Rewards,...

5 January 2012: RNLI Lifeguard Ross Leighton saved a family of four from a dangerous rip current off Bennett’s Beach in New South Wales, Australia. He was lifeguarding down under for our Winter, but is usually...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1951, the life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched to stand by racing ding- hies in a regatta. A few minutes later one of them the Meringue capsized half a mile away. The...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1954, information reached the life-boathouse that H.M. motor launch No. 323, a survey vessel, had gone aground on the Barber Sands. At 12.19 the Great Yarmouth coastguard...