LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Many gifts come rom children, who get the money in all sorts of ways, some of them very unexpected. Here are some of the ways used in the last fovir months, with the names of the places, and the amounts of the gifts. Selling Christmas cards...

European subsidies for MOB Guardian, the RNLI-developed fishing safety system, will cease from March. Therefore, we have decided to end production of MOB Guardian, but will continue to support the system for at least another 5...

of the most important features in the original organization of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it—was to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from shipwreck on...

FEBRUARY 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.40 A.M. t h e coastguard reported a light E. by S. of Peterhead, and later reported that it was still to be seen, drifting northward. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...

AUGUST 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.39 at night the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that two cabin cruisers were making distress signals four miles north-north-east of Boulmer.

A slight breeze was blowing...

OPERATIONS MANAGER

The training has been very successful. We have been able to customise the training that we normally offer RNLI students and make it appropriate to the environment and the HRT volunteers. ‘They’re already... - View image in PDF

MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.

was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...

ON the evening of the 28th March, 1962, the motor vessel Ridunian, which was loaded with 150 tons of grit and gravel, sailed from Alderney for St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A fresh breeze was blowing from the south-south west, the weather was...