LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, and Islay, Hebrides. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Barra Island life-boat station that the motor vessel Rusken of Oslo, on passage from Liverpool...

FOUR BOYS FOUND CUT OFF BY TIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.22 on the night of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were missing from a camp at Culver and that it was thought they might have...

Above: Martin Woodward (right), coxswain of Bembridge lifeboat, receiving the donation raised at The Return of May Madness'. In the background is the oil painting 'Cobweb' by James Bartholomew, which was painted specifically for... - View image in PDF

Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...

Shortly after 6 A.M.

on the 4th April, it was reported that a vessel was on the rocks east of Fair- light Coastguard Station, and that she was showing flares for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was...

Lt Cdr Brian Miles, the Director of the RNLI, was awarded a CBE in the New Year's honours list in recognition of his service to the Institution.

Cdr Miles joined the RNLI in 1964 as Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats in...

25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...

Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man.

ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Shering- ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the...