LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 11.48 a.m. on 20th May, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Emulate II had fired a flare between Brimsness and Dounresy and was drifting on to rocks. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31} was launched at 12 noon in...

At 3.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1967, information was received that the yacht Zerobe, with her sails gone, was in tow nine miles south east of Southwold. Thetow line had parted twice. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 4.40...

THURSDAY, 6th December, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 75 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 77 XT V Offshore Lifeboat Services, June, July and August 1977 82 462 Atlantic 21 Mobile Dock, by Ray Kipling 83 Boat Handling in Storm Force Winds 84...

Photo: Hewitt Clark and his wife Margaret meeting Captain Paul Wright on board the QE2,. - View image in PDF

Crew of two survive yacht fire and explosionTwo people and their dog had a very lucky escape last October when a fire and explosion ripped through their 27ft yacht.

Whitstable's Atlantic 21 was searching within 100...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1870, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...

In hurricane force winds, Ballycotton lifeboat crew launched to the aid of eight men on a lightship near Daunt Rock. 70 years on, it's a feat of courage and endurance still seen as one of the most demanding rescues in RNLI...