LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Twelve months after its opening by HM The Queen, The Lifeboat College has been awarded 'Medium-sized project of the year' at the 2005 Quality in Construction Awards. The RNLI development came top in a shortlist of four projects in... - View image in PDF

The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...

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Margate, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of 26th April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Dutchy of Rotterdam was ashore on the rocks at Walpole Bay, with her engine broken down. It was then almost low...

ESCORT FOR FIVE COBLES Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.45 on the morning of the 14th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. The life-boat The Isa & Penryn...

Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.50 p.m.

on 9th August, 1966, during the localtown regatta, a strong south westerly wind developed which suddenly capsized many of the smaller craft which were near the starting line. This kept the...

A Trinity House pilot at Alderney, Mr. Nicholas James Allen, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution incsribed on vellum for the rescue of 20 members of the crew of a Greek tanker.

At 11.30 on the morning of 23rd...

CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — Information was brought to this Life-boat Station on the morning of the 14th February of a wreck on Skerries Island. The wind was blowing half a gale from S.W. at the time. The Lifeboat Ashtonian was immediately launched...