LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Station Name: Lifeboat: Date of Launch: Cause of Service: Weather: Visibility: Wind: Sea state: Swell: Tenby RFA Sir Galahad 26 June 1994 Vessel lost her rudder Rain Moderate South west Force 5 to 6 Rough Two metresI was told by the station...

In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.

An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...

STOKEHOLD ON FIRE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.59 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had received a mayday call from the British trawler hernia stating that her stokehold was on fire. The life...

LAST Christmas a number of life-boats again took out Christmas parcels from their towns to men on neighbouring lightships. The Weymouth life-boat took them to the Shambles, Selsey to the Owers, Barry Dock to the Breaksea, Margate to the...

Margate, Kent. — At 3.24 in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had anchored three hundred yards off Reculver near the Black Rock, but that she had not made any distress signals. A motor boat...

At Earls Court, Ravmond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented RNLI Public Relations awards to Alun Richards, the author (second from left, back row I. BBC Wales and The Mumbles lifeboat station for their various... - View image in PDF

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS Shoreline has taken great strides forward. Our membership has grown faster than ever before, largely due to the support we are receiving from our members and, above all, from financial branches and guilds. We...

NEW ROMNEY, KENT ; PORTHLEVEN, CORN- WALL ; SWANSEA, WALES ; ARBROATH and PORTPATRICK, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boats placed on these Stations many years since have recently been superseded by new boats furnished by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...