LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.

of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...

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SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...

Scotland South Division Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday,...

AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...

Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...

THE FOURTEENTH International Lifeboat Conference was formally opened by HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden on June 5 in Gothenburg. More than 50 papers on subjects of mutual interest were presented to delegates from 24 lifeboat societies from all...

THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.

In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...