LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...

Launches 40 Lives rescued 24

JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a...

Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...

DURING the coming holiday months many people will find themselves con- fronted at seaside resorts and elsewhere with flag sellers for the Royal National Life-boat Institution. When putting a coin into a box they may well ask them- selves:...

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer

Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...

Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.

It is not the oldest boat...

SECOND Coxswain Charles I. Crockford, of the Tenby life-boat, has been awarded a framed letters of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution.

Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for taking the...

SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...