LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Martin Milne-Redhead, floating on his back and using only his arms due to a spina bifida handicap, completed 50 lengths of Ilfracombe swimming pool in just over 40 minutes. With this magnificent feat of courage Martin raised the impressive... - View image in PDF

Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 6.22 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a small boat had broken down and needed help two miles north-west of Banff. The life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) was...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.30 p.m. on 30th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that a skiff with three people on board was in dangerous water off Mexico Beach. At 1.31 inshore rescue boat no. 5 launched in a moderate northwesterly...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the signal station reported that red and white flares had been seen about one mile south of the pier heads. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 21st of July, 1950, the Ventnor coastguard passed on a message from the steamer Stability that the yacht Corinne, of Glasgow, was dis- abled and in need of help. Half an hour later the...

South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...

Above - Medallists from left to right Ian Leask Lerwick - Bronze Mecal, Michael Grant. Lerwick- Bronze Medal. Peter Thomson, Le Bronze Medal. Brian Laurenson Lerwick.

Bronze Medal. Richie Simpson. : tvvwcfc. Bronze Medal;... - View image in PDF

The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.

Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...