LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.

There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...

Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...

IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...

Licencing for sailors? is interesting to speculate on what would happen if we were ever to lose our traditional freedom to go to sea.

Many lifeboat callouts are for seafarers in small craft powered by unreliable outboard...

THE ELEVENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn at Poole HQ on January 30 by Mr P. H. Byrt, manager of Poole branch of Marks and Spencer, a company which has given considerable support to the lifeboat service in a number of ways. Poole lifeboat...

Barra Island: At 0812 on Saturday July 21, 1984, Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was launched under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic John Macneil, following a MAYDAY from the survey ship Geotek...

Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF

Motor Mechanic Edward A. Slaughter who served in the Flamborough lifeboat crew for over 30 years, becoming part-time mechanic in 1935 before becoming the lifeboat's full-time mechanic in 1953, a position he held until 1969. Mr Slaughter...