LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AGM (/row page 15) At this point four Scouts, representing Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, walked down the centre aisle and up on to the platform to present the Duke with a very large cheque— large in every way, for it...

Sick seaman saved THE 18,000 TON GREEK tanker Kithnos was heading north of the Humber light vessel at 0418 on January 15,1987 when one of her crew was reported to be suffering from a severe nosebleed, requiring medical...

THE commerce of the world has increased, and is increasing so rapidly, and especially that of this great commercial nation, that the danger of collision between the innumerable ships that are passing and repassing each other, and crossing...

Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...

A seventeen-year-old boy, Andrew Richards of Dolgellau, and his companion, sixteen-year-old Mark Heywood of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...

The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...

How one woman’s generosity and a volunteer crew’s commitment made a 12-hour rescue possible

The lifeboat crew from the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides worked through the night aboard the...

Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.

The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.

Sir Max Aitken had...