LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...

Mrs P. Hamley-Rowan, president of East Sheen and Barnes branch since 1982 after serving as honorary secretary from 1939 to 1982. Mrs Hamley-Rowan was awarded a record of thanks in 1951, the gold badge in 1960, a bar to her gold badge in 1971...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.35 on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1956, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Swansea asked if the life- boat would land a sick man from the St. Gowan lightvessel. At 11.50 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown...

COXSWAIN Richard Evans of Moelfre, Mr. Kenneth Derham of Christchurch, Hampshire, Coxswain Daniel Kirk- patrick of Longhope, Motor Mechanic Evan Owens of Moelfre, Coxswain Harry Thomas of Torbay and Cox- swain Albert Watson of Cromarty ! ...

During a westerly gale on the 22nd June, the schooner Tankerton Tower, of Faversham, got into a dangerous position near Formby Point. She was bound at the time from Dublin to Liverpool in ballast, and had five men on board.

Newsbuoy off Tower Bridge. - View image in PDF

Feast your eyes on a batch of tasty RNLI treats celebrating 150 years of support from the Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund

Every slice of these spectacular RNLI-flavoured cakes is benefiting The Lifeboat...

Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.

He retired in 1920 on account...