LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INFLATABLE STEPS IN TO TAKE OVER TOW Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves three A service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on...

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...

AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.

She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...

Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...

Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.

At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...