LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Otter
Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry following the rescue of a lone...
Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Minstrel Boy
Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
BEHIND EVERY RESCUE IS SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Leaving a gift to the RNLI in your Will is your legacy of care to millions of people who use our coast each year, from children playing on the beach, to fishing crews who battle the seas to put a fresh catch on the...
Category: Articles
Bryony
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.55 A.M.
on the 25th August, 1938, the harbourmaster reported rockets near Black Rock Buoy in the Solent. The night was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 3.17 A.M.,...
Tarifa
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that the yacht Tarifa was in diffi- culties some three miles south of Portland Bill. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at...
Widgeon II
Dover, Kent. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 25th of May, 1958, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares off South Foreland. At 1.10 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary...
Winning Journalist
Mr. Michael Tosh has become the first man to receive the Institution's award for the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat. His report appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser on nth November, 1964. In it he...
Category: Awards
Ruffian (1)
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...