LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...

Arbroath, Angus.—On the 16th of December, 1955, the local pilot boat put off with a pilot to warn a vessel not to attempt to enter the harbour in the bad weather, but the pilot boat broke down and was towed in. At 2.30 in the afternoon the...

Soon after midnight of the 29th January the night signals of dis- tress of a vessel on the North Sand End, Goodwin Sands, were observed. It was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time.

The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins...

Sea Rhine founders I would like to thank you and the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat for your help when you came to the assistance of Sea Rhine off Lowestoft on Wednesday morning, February 11.

It was a...

THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...

Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the...

DART | 2 SEPTEMBER

Walkers on the South West Coast Path got front-row seats for an unusual type of rescue when the crew of Dart's inshore lifeboat went to help a calf. The animal had become wedged in a cave after...

January, 1987 Dudley Stone, coxswain of Torbay lifeboat. Coxswain Stone joined the lifeboat crew in 1958 becoming second coxswain in 1961. In 1970 he was appointed coxswain until 1972 when he retired from the service..