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Radiant

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Dover, Kent - At 6.46 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Radiant was in difficulties with engine trouble between Folkestone and Dover. The life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her...

Braunschweig

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4 a.m. on 22nd January, 1966, the harbour master received a radio telephone call from the German trawler Braunschweig asking for medical assistance for a member of the crew who had been injured and was bleeding...

Southwold:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Southwold: The only way to christen an Atlantic 21 inflatable lifeboat is to take the cork out of the bottle. Senior Helmsman Roger Trigg performs the task after, on a wet Wednesday August 7, 1985, the station's new lifeboat was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Above) Stormy Stan,

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

(above) Stormy Stan, the Storm Force hero, made friends with all the youngsters - although from the look on this little lad's face some weren't quite so sure…. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Taste of France

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Can-can girls were popular entertainers at a French Connection evening, staged by the Middelsex forum at the end of November - raising nearly £3,000 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (44)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 5.34 P.M. the Margate coastguard telephoned that an unidentified aeroplane had made a forced landing on Margate Sands some three miles from the shore, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...

An Aeroplane (162)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 24TH. - PORTHDINLLAES, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the crew were rescued by an Air Sea Rescue launch, which also towed the aeroplane to port. - Rewards, £11 8s..

Campbeltown

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 19th January, 1942, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued forty-four of the crew of the motor vessel Mobeka, of Antwerp.

COXSWAIN JAMES THOMSON was awarded the silver...

Category: Medals

Six Months of Peace

Date: December 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 22

In the last six months of war the Life-boat Service rescued 527 lives.

In the first six months of peace it has rescued 295 lives..

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane (145)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SEPTEMBER 19TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled as the aeroplane was safe. - Rewards, £7 10s..