LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the outbreak of War last year many Branch Committees felt that the arrangements which they had in prospect for the benefit of the Institution should be abandoned and their labours devoted to the many War Funds which immediately sprang...

COVER PICTURE by Alan Richardson Montrose's D class lifeboat Holme Team 3 takes flight while on service to the Arbroath fishing vessel Radiant Star onll November 1995.

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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE’ AT CLOUGHEY JUNE 17TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. The S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao, had gone aground on Butter Pladdy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party...

At about 11 A.M. on the 9th April, during a strong N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, the schooner Fanny Grosfield of Bai'row- in-Furness was seen drifting helplessly with her canvas all blown away, and a little later, when the vessel was...

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Municipal Life Assurance announces a unique new fund-raising campaign in partnership with the R.N.L.I.

How your investment in a top-performing unit trust or savings plan will help to pay for a new R.N. L.I....

Plymouth, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, two people from a speedboat were reported in the water about half a mile off Rame Head. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse proceeded at 2.45 in a moderate west north westerly breeze...

HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.

The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...