LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The following members of the RNLI family have been honoured in HM The Queen’s New Year list: MBE: Captain Roy Griffiths, Deputy Launching Authority, The Mumbles; Douglas MacNeilage, Lifeboat Treasurer, Tobermory; Captain Michael Sutherland,...

Duck! Because we hope these cute quackers will be flying off the counters at Barclays until 3 August.

On sale in aid of the RNLI at branches of the bank around the UK, each duck has its own personality, designed to appeal...

We had so much fun at fundraising events around the UK and RoI over the Summer, we had to share some of the photos with you!

Thank you so much to everyone who took part or donated. To find out what’s coming up over the...

AN interesting tabular return has just been published in Lloyd's List of the casualties to shipping, reported to Lloyd's during, the month of January last. They are thus classified : vessels totally wrecked, 145; part of cargo saved,...

3 June: In high winds and rough seas, a dismasted yacht drifted towards the dangerous cliffs and tidal race of St Alban’s Head, Dorset. The yacht had been swamped and her cockpit filled with water. Swanage’s...

SUNK BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

I thought it worth updating readers to let them know that, while many RNLI lifeboats have been lost when their service to the RNLI finished, the former Cardigan...

BROADSTAIRS.—A signal of distress was shown by the ketch Martin Luther, of Cowes, bound from Poole to London, with a cargo of pipeclay, in a gale from W.S.W., and a very heavy sea, on the 2ith March.

She had anchored off...

MARCH 2 3 RD. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 3.45 P .M. information was received that an aeroplane had crashed, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 4.5 P.M. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.