LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.23 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a man had fallen over the cliff between Manobier camp and Lydstep and that the police had asked for the help of...

Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was...

Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.

Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...

On the morning of the 8th July, a boat was observed about four miles from the shore at Bude, with a signal flying. She tacked about several times, as if intending to make Bude. The crew assembled, and the Elizabeth Moore Garden Life-boat...

TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 7th February, during thick weather, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.S.E., accompanied by heavy rain, the brigantine Bransty, of Whitehaven, bound from Newry to Penarth, with a cargo of oats,...

BY the death of Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., the marine painter, on 12th September, at the age of sixty-one, the Institution has lost a valued and •generous friend. Mr. Dixon painted two of the outstanding life-boat services of recent years, the...

Respect the Water – the RNLI’s safety campaign – launched throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland this Summer. The campaign was bigger than ever, with thought-provoking adverts in cinemas, on radio, the web and in the press, all in the...

YEAR after year the Board of Trade publishes a register of the wrecks occur- ring on the rocky and dangerotis shores of the British Isles. This register silently places before us, in carefully arranged tables, a terrible tale of disaster and...