LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

End of an era...

Whenever a station changes lifeboats there is always a degree of sadness in handing back a trusted boat, tempered by the excitement of receiving a brand new vessel in its place. The Dover station's...

Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .

Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...

FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...

Hammering away...

The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.

Several hundred autographs have been received at...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...

Four local athletes from Cumbernauld Athletics and Shettleston Harriers, including a father and son, offered themselves for sponsorship in the Scottish People's Marathon, run in Glasgow on September 11, 1983. Between them they raised... - View image in PDF

The Institution has made rewards of £15 : 15 :- to three fishermen of Boston, Lincolnshire, for rescuing three airmen whose aeroplane had crashed en a.

sandbank. They had come down through a cloud over The Wash and had...

IN accordance with the policy laid down by the Committee of Management some time ago, the scale of' Rewards given to the Coxswains and Crews of Life-boats for going afloat to save life has again been raised, the higher Rewards taking...