LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Japanese Lifeboat centenary commemorated at conference By Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the RNLI In July 1924, representatives from eight overseas lifeboat societies met in London at the invitation of the RNLI for a conference which was...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the evening of the 10th June, 1938, news was received through the Mersey Dock Board that a vessel was ashore on the Burbo Bank. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford I,...

Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bathing Master telephoned that a yacht had run ashore between No. 4 and No. 6 buoys in the River Liffey. At 9.40 the life-boat Helen Blake...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...

FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....

OCTOBER 8TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 8.25 at night the coastguard reported that the motor boat Secret, of Littlehaven, with three on board, had left Littlehaven in the morning for Milford Haven and had not arrived. A second message...

Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.

The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.

Sir Max Aitken had...