LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. in. NORTHUMBERLAND BKRWICK-OX-TWKED - - - 33 - 8 - 10 1864 1 HOLY ISLASD — No. 1 - — — 34 - 8 ...

Appledore, Devon. On the 13th of April, 1960, the motor vessel Lundy Gannet was returning from Lundy Island to Bideford on the evening tide with six people on board, including four passengers, when the keel band came adrift and threatened to...

Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...

A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...

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BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Entertainment at Bed- dington, with addresses by the Mayor, Miss Roberts, honorary secretary, and the district organizing...

THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...

JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

Teamwork saves three surfers Thanks on Vellum awarded to Newquay helmsman A;ombined lifeboat and helicopter rescue in Force 8 winds saved the lives of three surfers in January - including a thirteen year old girl who was suffering from...