LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd THAMES MARINA THAMES DITTON SURREY Telephone: 01-398 6802 Apart from the MERMAID Type 595-TP TURBO-PLUS Marine Diesel Engines being installed in the new WAVENEY Class R.N.L.I.

44ft Steel Lifeboats...

from Fairey marine WAVENEY Class 13.4 metre Self-righting Lifeboat, one of 117 lifeboats built by our East Cowes yard for the R.IM.L.I.

A boat of this Class, built for St. Helier, Jersey R.N.L.I. Station is featured in the...

Coxswain Tenby Tyne class lifeboat Silver medal 22 September 1989 In a WNW Force 8 to 9 wind, very rough seas, rain squalls and poor visibility Coxswain Thomas repeatedly manoeuvred the Tenby Tyne class lifeboat FIFA Sir Galahad inside the... - View image in PDF

Princely donation: the Fred Olsen Lines shipping company has generously presented the RNLI with a further £2,000 to complete the purchase of a third lifeboat in its name. Already paid for by the company are a D class inflatable and an... - View image in PDF

Bridlington lifeboat station, established in 1806, is one of the oldest in the country - the all-weather lifeboat station can be seen in the centre of the detail photograph. Bridlington's carriage launched Mersey class, Marine Engineer,... - View image in PDF

A trawler with a lone fisherman onboard got her nets caught in her propeller on 2 June off Cliffe Marshes. She then sustained damage and began to take on water as her skipper tried to clear the obstruction. Gravesend’s E class lifeboat Olive...

RESCUE6When three teenage girls got trapped in a gulley at the base of cliffs in Caerfai Bay on 5 August, their lives were very much in danger. St Davids’ eponymous D class Saint David Dewi Sant was launched but couldn’t get close enough due...