LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.

2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.

3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.

Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...

SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

At 3 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the life-boat to be launched as lifting craft No. 17 had broken loose from moorings at the mouth of the harbour, where she was being used on...

Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland.It is appropriate that we commence the final leg...

At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...

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PATRONS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K..8.

VICE PATRONESS-THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.Q.

Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...

North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...