LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.

These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.

Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...

FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Southwold, Suffolk. At...

In December last, the Viscountess Hawarden was chairman of the Central London Women's Committee 150th anniversary Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball at the Dorchester Hotel. The event was graced by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and...

Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.

The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat...

Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.

MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...

Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.

The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the... - View image in PDF

WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.

The first report to reach a life-boat station came...

(Above, left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton, honorary secretary of Kensington branch, with some of her enthusiastic Royal Navy helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last spring. During the exhibition Navy crews collected £207.98... - View image in PDF