LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

North Sunder] and, Northumberland.

At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 13th December, 1961 the assistant motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that several fishing boats were unable to enter the harbour. There was a...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly - At 7.20 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a ketch was in difficulties trying to roundthe Garrison from St. Mary's sound. The life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on 9th October, 1965, the coastguard notified the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a half miles east of the station. At 12 o'clock the IRB launched at high water in a strong...

YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...

(Below) Mallaig's new 52ft Arun lifeboat The Davina and Charles Matthews Hunter at sea.. - View image in PDF

Below left: Shoreham crew launch a D class from its trailer at the start of a long and tiring day in Lewes,. - View image in PDF

Top far left: The first RNLI-built Waveney John F Kennedy, based at Dun Laoghaire.. - View image in PDF

RNLI chief of operations, Michael Vlasto, starts the first engine in the new training facility at Poole.. - View image in PDF