LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lives saved.

Ackergill fishing boats 30 •4rm, schooner, of Liverpool, saved vessel and 4 Aurora, dandy, of Hull — re- mained by vessel.

Avenir, brig, of Krageroe—as- sisted to save vessel and 7...

SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...

ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...

AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...

IntO tHe Cauldron Few people would risk swimming 30m through churning seas, surrounded by rocks – but that’s exactly what an RNLI lifeguard did in her bid to save a life South of Cornwall’s popular Perranporth beach, a gully lies in amongst...

The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp

Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....

Thank you for my journal (the Lifeboat, Winter issue). The prize-winning photograph taken by Neville Murphy, of the Dunmore East station crew changing room, brought back memories  of my boyhood. When in Sunderland, I accompanied my...

THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP- WRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instru- mental in saving lives during the year 1852...