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Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

Disaster survivor names new lifeboatA ceremony in New Quay, Wales on 7 May 2004 was steeped in history. On the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat torpedo, it was a survivor of that tragedy who named a new...

Category: Articles

St. Helier Naming Ceremony

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

THE new St. Helier life-boat arrived at her station on the llth of September, 1948, and on the 14th of October her naming ceremony was held on a sunny afternoon after a morning of storm.

The station was established in 1884,...

Category: Inaugurations

Canoes

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

GIRL RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 5.25 p.m. on 17th April, 1965, two canoes were reported in trouble off Langstone Rock near Dawlish. The life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 6.10 in a northwesterly gale and moderate sea. The...

Prime Position

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

Mrs Thatcher with the media and the crew of the Fowey lifeboat. The planned exercise with a helicopter ended with the lifeboat going to the aid of a 32ft yacht. (Photo Harry and Bi/lie Graeme). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lochgoil

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 6TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a steamer of...

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: February 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 239

ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...

Category: Articles

Torbay

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bessie

Date: February 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 191

NEW BRIGHTON.—The chief officer of coastguard at Blundell Sands reported by telegraph that a steam flat was stranded on Seaforth Beach, on the 5th August.

The vessel was also observed from New Brighton. The steam Life-boat...

Welcome

Date: Summer 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 628 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2019

Not a dry eye in the boathouse

Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...

Category: Articles

TOWN & COUNTRY

Date: Winter 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 563

A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp y the finest ™ Driveways money can buy , V Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.

Beneath the surface is a unique fibre...

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