LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, came to Poole headquarters on Wednesday October 31 to draw the 20 winners of the twenty-seventh national lottery. More than £45,000 had been raised and the chairman was successful in drawing...

Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...

In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...

Your chance to win The star prize for the winter 2004 Lifeboat Lottery is a 12-day St Petersburg and Baltic capitals cruise for two aboard the MVVan Gogh. The prize is kindly sponsored byTravelscope and tickets are available from 18 October...

MOELFEE, ANGLESEA.—About 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd March, while a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. accompanied by a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the schooner County of Cork, of Amlwch, bound from Liverpool...

Aerokits Ltd have recently introduced into their model range a kit for the 48' 6" Solent class lifeboat, the prototype of which (shown above) is being given to Southwold Lifeboat Museum.

A royalty will come to the...

Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.40 a.m.

on yth June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.v.

Dougals' engine had broken down four miles south of Otter rock and required assistance....

Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.

on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...