LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 12.58 p.m. on i6th October, 1966, a small catarmaran with an elderly man on board was seen in difficulties half a mile north west of the coastguard look-out.

The man appeared to be exhausted. The life-boat Elizabeth...

LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....

ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...

Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...

Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland. — At 5.22 on the evening of the 5th of March, 1952, the Holy Island coastguard re- ported to the Holy Island life-boat station a message received from the North Sunderland life-boat station...

Publican and prankster Geoff Atkinson is not the kind to throw the towel in when it comes to a bet. In fact, the landlord of the Fleece Inn at Holme is more likely to wear one! Geoff s latest stunt to raise money for the RNLI was to wear the... - View image in PDF

THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.

One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...

A plaque presented to the Appledore life-boat station by R.A.F. Chivenor, Devon, has led to a reciprocal presentation by the life-boat station. The plaques record the close co-operation between the two establishments on sea survival...