LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DEC. 9TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. The two local fishing boats Ben Venuto and Vanguard had not returned from the fishing grounds by 3.25 P.M. A S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At. 3.30 P.M the motor life-boat John and William Mudie...

WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...

FIREMEN TAKEN TO MOTOR BARGE Margate, Kent. At 2.26 on the morning of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen four and a half miles north-east of the coastguard look-out. The...

A Man Hauled Ashore In A "Sling" Travelling On A Hawser.

It was a memorable moment on a truly proud day for the Institution that saw Her Majesty The Queen, the RNLI's patron, declare the College officially open. Volunteers, supporters, staff and locals turned out in their hundreds to get a...

• The first lifeboat in the Penzance area was built in 1803 to Henry Greathead's design, purchased by local subscription and a donation from Lloyd's.

Unfortunately, the early initiative faded and the boat was sold...

100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...

rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...