LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in...

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.

At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...

A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged...

Peter Heading (left), helmsman of Aberystwyth station's C class inshore lifeboat, joined the crew in 1982.

In 1991, he was awarded a Bronze Medal in recognition of the courage and skill he displayed during a service on... - View image in PDF

FOR THE PAST YEAR members of the staff of HM Prison Dartmoor and a number of the inmates have combined in a voluntary stamp scheme to help the RNLI. Used British and foreign postage stamps have been collected, sorted, graded, made up into...

Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.

Cullercoats.

A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...

In the first eighteen months of war life-boats have rescued 3526 lives.

They have rescued more lives in these eighteen months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued a life every four hours..