LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...

FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...

Flying the RNLI flag Three members of Port Talbot lifeboat crew represented the Institution at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Pauls Cathedral on 19 October 1994.

Ronald Jones, Peter Thomas and Robert Parker...

where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.

Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...

Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...

When an experienced boater fell into the River Dart after an evening cruise with his wife and young son, it quickly dawned on him he was in grave danger

For Simon Burton, a leisurely family cruise on 24 June turned into a...

In Brief DURING 1993/94 Brian Davey, the box secretary of Frampton Cotterell branch collected an amazing £1,739.25 from collecting boxes placed in pubs, shops, railway stations and clubs.

THE 20th annual buffet dance...

WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...