LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Humber, Yorkshire. — At 12.10 in the morning of the 27th of May, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard tele- phoned that the tug Scotsman, of Hull, which had been helping H.M.

tug Mediator to tow a naval vessel, was making...

The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...

OCTOBER 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A parachute had been reported coming down, but nothing could be found.

It is possible that it may have been a mine dropped by enemy aeroplanes, as a great number were...

Margate, Kent.—At 3.22 on the after- noon of the 7th of August, 1952, the Reculvers coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile east of Reculvers. As no boat was available at Herne Bay, the life-boat North...

When you're saving lives second best won't do You need the best - a rigid hull inflatable as now adopted by the RNLI.

Extensive testing has shown the superiority of this design in rescue work over the pure...

MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.

At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...

On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...

A town remembers: Harry Bamber, Ken Smith, bearing the RNLI standard, and David Topping of Lytham lifeboat crew are followed by their Coxswain Arthur Wignall (I) and Helmsman Edward Brown of New Brighton in the procession on July 27, 1986,... - View image in PDF