LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WINTERTON (NORFOLK).—During thick and bitterly cold weather on the morning of the 23rd January, the wind blowing a strong gale from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow squalls, flares were shown by a vessel which ran aground about a mile...

On service 11 hours ON MONDAY, MAY 31, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station that a cabin cruiser had broken down in a position some three to four miles south east of the lifeboat station; she was drifting...

JANUARY 21ST. - PORTASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 10.10 P.M. the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay. The night was dark, with an easterly gale and a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte...

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. On the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing fleet in Berwick Bay, as the weather had deteriorated considerably. It was squally and over- cast with a...

Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still

How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...

COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...

Selling gifts and souvenirs is an excellent way of raising both funds and the profile of the lifeboat service. RNLI (Sales) provides a range of products for the wide variety of shops and events run by volunteers. In 2001 its turnover was...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 2.16 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1948, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a distress call had been sent out by the Fleetwood steam trawler Brides- maid, which was ashore at the north end of Islay...