LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tobermory Lifeboat Press Officer Sam Jones is the RNLI Photographer of the Year 2011.

Sam’s winning photo shows the crew of the Hebrides station having casualty care training onboard the Severn class lifeboat Elizabeth...

MAUYPORT, CUMBERLAND.— During a furious gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the 23rd January, the Norwegian barque Alma, bound for Maryport with a cargo of pitch-pine, was at anchor in a dangerous position, and made signals of distress. At...

DURING the month of October six Lifeboats were launched in response to signals which were believed to be from aeroplanes in distress. The story of their search shows the way in which the increasing traffic by air is adding to the duties of...

PENMON.—The ketch Eva Lena, of Liverpool, laden with limestone, was seen to run aground on the Dutchman's bank during a moderate breeze from the E.N.E.

on the 28th December. She showed no signal of distress, but hearing...

Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...

At 10.10 P.M. on the 9th March informa- tion was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore at the mouth of the River Bann, which required assist- ance. The Life-boat Hopwood was launched and proceeded to the place indicated, but...

Lieutenant E. D. STOGDON, R.N.V.R., hospital and will be off duty for several District Inspector (South-East), who weeks. He was deeply gratified by the was involved in a road accident on the letters of sympathy received from his 22nd...

CEMAES, ANGLESEA. — The Life-boat was launched at 11.15 A.M., on the 13th Maroh,a steamer having been seen to run on the Platters Books in Skerries Sound. She ultimately foundered near the Victoria buoy, and her crew of six men haying taken...