LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Saved 21 GALWAY BAY LIFEBOAT, the 48ft 6in Solent R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings at 0715 on Sunday, November 9, 1986, after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Shannon had alerted the station honorary secretary to the plight of...

Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.

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HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...

By REAR-ADMIRAL W. S. REYNOLDS, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard.Anderson tendered his services to the surf man. The acceptance of the offer automatically placed Anderson, for the time, in charge of the station crew, a responsibility which, as...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—At 8.30 P.M., on the 13th August, the Albert Victor Lifeboat put off to the assistance of the yacht Puffin, of Berwick, which was brought up in a dangerous position off Spittal Beach. The owner and crew of the yacht having...

COVER PICTURE Coxswain Albert Bird (right) and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack of Aberdeen were awarded silver medals for gallantry (see page 11) for the rescue on April 13, 1974, of the crew of 12 from the trawler Netta Croan which was on fire and... - View image in PDF

Life-boatmen took part in the meetings, on 2oth and 2ist February, celebrating the 25th birthday of the Red Army. Life-boatmen from Margate and Southend-on-Sea were at the chief celebration in the Albert Hall, London; men from Newhaven and-...

Calling all yachtsmen: A first-class insurance against disaster is to be well-prepared.

Experience counts above all, but a lot can be learned from good books, and there is no better list of titles on the subject than that...