LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The honorary secretaries of the Berth and Aberystwyth IRB stations would like to challenge any other two honorary secretaries in a four-ball golf match, the venue to be convenient to both sides..

Sea Rhine founders AT 0423 ON WEDNESDAY February 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station that a Mayday call had been received from the coaster Sea Rhine whose cargo had shifted,...

As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.

D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...

Beaumaris lifeboat was called out to a mayday on 25 May.

A 7m boat had a rope caught around her propeller. Without power, she was drifting fast – when the lifeboat arrived on scene she was just 3m away from the rocks off...

QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Walmer one hundred years ago at a ceremony which took place at the Walmer boat-house on the 23rd of May...

Tenby, May 17, 1986: meteorological records showed Tenby to be the wettest place in the country on the day the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat was handed over and dedicated. This did nothing to dampen the spirits of sisters... - View image in PDF

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.40 in the morning, on the 1st of December, 1950, the pier signal station sent a message that the motor tanker Guides- man, of London, was ashore off Scar's Elbow Buoy, near Canvey Island. At 5.25 the...

Two knighthoods conferred on mem- bers of the Committee of Management were among the honours bestowed in the New Year Honours list.

The li ,t of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service was:...