LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was...

Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF

Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF

Fishing boat with engine trouble A MEMBER OF BALTIMORE, Co. Cork, lifeboat crew informed the deputy launching authority at about 1310 on Tuesday, November 11, 1975, that the fishing boat Dun Na Ri was in difficulty with engine trouble east...

Royal helmsman: Prince Michael ( Kent aboard Huv/ini; Island's Atlantic 21 lifeboat. The Prince had e presseil n wish (f nM&r a private visit to a lifeboat station and in May his wish wax fulfilled -lien Selsey'.s 47fl Tyne... - View image in PDF

Crossed Bar RETURNING at 1910 on June 6, 1987 from a machinery exercise, in command of the Portrush 52ft Arun class lifeboat Robert Evans (Civil Service No. 39), Second Coxswain/Mechanic Derek Chambers succeeded in crossing the bar at the...

Contents Volume XLIX Number 493 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...

Standing into danger A MOTOR CRUISER, Temple Queen, unsure of her position in a dangerous area just north of the entrance to Strangford Lough was reported to Portaferry lifeboat station by Belfast Coastguard at1900 on Sunday May 17. It was a...