LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 7.8 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Banff informed Coxswain William Pirie of Whitehills that red flares had been seen four miles off Portsoy. At 7.30 the Whitehills life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No....

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 Both crew gallantry and supporter dedication were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards at London’s Barbican Centre on 27 May. Guest of Honour this year was HRH Prince Michael of...

Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...

Fishermen taken off THE COXSWAIN of Angle lifeboat was informed at 0007 on Friday December 1, 1978, that the 39ft fishing boat Cairnsmore, on passage to Scotland, was in trouble five miles south west of the Hats and Barrels. Maroons were...

Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...

THE NAMES of famous lifeboatmen tend to stick to places along the coast. So, too, do the names of voluntary workers who over many years have left their mark on communities in the name of the lifeboat service. One of these is Mrs Kathleen...

MR. F. DOWNS, a member of the Whitstable inshore rescue boat crew, recently helped to save his own fishing boat from a possible explosion by a German magnetic mine.

His fishing boat, Harvester II, was found to have a German...