LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PAULA FUDGE, Commonwealth gold medalist and holder of the women's 5,000 metres world record, visited Poole headquarters on Friday October 30 to draw the RNLI fifteenth national lottery. Paula gained her record in Norway in 1981, and was...

HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the birthday honours for 1962 included:— K.C.B. Rear Admiral E. G. IRVING, C.B.E., O.B.E., Hydrogra- pher of the Navy, and ex- officio member of the Com- mittee of...

LOBSTER BOAT AIDED Stromness, Orkneys. At 4.20 a.m.

on 24th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the lobster boat Robin of Kirkwall on passage to Stromness was overdue. At 4.45 the life-boat Archibald and...

RED ROCKETS SEEN At 9.34 p.m. on 27th November, 1963, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been sighted four miles south-east of St. Peter Port harbour. There were light airs and a smooth sea...

Aberystwyth D class inflatable lifeboat was launched on the morning of Tuesday January 12 to go out to meet a fishing boat bringing in people from New Quay and taking back medical supplies and yeast. There were breaking seas on the harbour...

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9.15 p.m. on 25th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was in difficulties three miles from the Tyne look-out. The lifeboat Tynesider was launched at 9.25 in a moderate northerly breeze and...

At 5 p.m. on 7th February, 1967, news was received that a sick man had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The sick man was taken on board the life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3. The life-boat slipped her moorings at 5.30 and proceeded to...

Chris Hoffman of McMurdo Marine (left) handed over a cheque for over £3,000 to RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, at the London Boat Show 2000.

The money was raised in support of the RNLI's 175th anniversary from... - View image in PDF