LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...

THE RIGHT Hos. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.C., M.P., IN THE CHAIR.

Moved by The Right Hon.

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P.

Seconded by The Right Hon.

the Earl of MOUNT...

Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the 21st January, 1938, the medical officer at Castlebay received an urgent call to the neighbouring island of Vatersay. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and no ordinary boatcould make the...

North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 7.56 a.m. on 28th July, 1966, the IRB seemed to have broken down on a service call to the tanker Ross Cleveland.

The life-boat Grace Darling was launched at 8 o'clock in a light...

A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.

During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...

Have you got old printer cartridges, mobile phones and gadgets that you no longer use? They could help keep our lifesavers trained and equipped. The Recycling Factory gives the RNLI a donation for every item successfully recycled and, to...

7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...

Moved by Rear-Admiral the Earl TALBOT, C.B., and seconded by MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.,— 1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

Moved by Captain JOHN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy-Master of the Trinity House, and...