LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

YACHT GUIDED TO HARBOUR IN POOR VISIBILITY Margate, Kent. At 9.23 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Whitstable harbour master had reported that a small yacht had capsized a...

Reserve life-boat O.N. 873 on trials.

At 12.45 P-m- °n i?th July, 1964, while the reserve life-boat George Elmy was undergoing trials on the river Thames she heard from the river boat Tamar Belle that a sailing dinghy...

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION ""I*?: The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat...

IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...

At about 3 P.M. on the 21st March, during a gale from the S.S.W., a number of the big trawlers belonging to Penzance, which had been at anchor off Newlyn, ran for Penzance Harbour for shelter. Several of the steam drifters also started to...

It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue

On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...

JAN. 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

Four seine net fishing boats- Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crestwere overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso. The motor...

Howth lifeboat crew rushed to the aid of a woman whose car went over the harbour wall on 10 January. She escaped from the car and members of the public helped her to safety. The lifeboat crew then gave first aid to the woman, who was having...