LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

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GRENFELL FAMILIES VISIT STATION

The RNLI has been working alongside charity Cornwall Hugs Grenfell to help survivors, firefighters and those who’ve lost loved ones to create new memories and...

The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).

• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...

LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...

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 RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...

West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...