LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Peggy Bibby-Cheshire MBE - Great Yarmouth and Corleston guild President and Honorary Life Governor Simon Campbell - former Yarmouth Second Coxswain James Dyer - former Teignmouth Crew Member Ernie Eves - former Scarborough Crew Member Peter...

COVER PICTURE by Edward Mallinson The third Trent class, Blue Peter VII, pictured off the island of Alderney during crew training before going to her station at Fishguard. She is the first all-weather lifeboat to carry the 'Blue... - View image in PDF

Service to Mi Amigo: On the evening of March 19, 1980. the radio ship Mi Amigo was reported to be dragging anchor in the vicinity of NW Long Sand Beacon. Sheerness lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney1 Helen Turnbull, under the command of Coxswain...

The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...

Concerted efforts Worcester guild has a particular talent for turning musical notes into pound notes. In May 1984 a concert given by Scottish baritone, Peter Morrison, in conjunction with the Hereford Police Choir, raised £362.25, while...

THE third volume in Cyril Noall's and Grahame Farr's series Wreck and Rescue around the Cornish Coast (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 28s.) tells the history of life-boat stations on the south coast of Cornwall. These are: Mullion,...

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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...

His Grace The Duke of Atholl As this issue of the Lifeboat was going to press we learned with great sadness of the death on 27 February 1996 of His Grace The Duke of Atholl, a tireless supporter of the Institution for almost 40...