LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 27 May, Aberdovey lifeboat crew faced a 4m breaking swell in their B class Sandwell Lifeline to rescue a windsurfer who was drifting out to sea in force 6 conditions.

He was spotted by someone on the shore. Crew Member...

Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...

DINGHY ON ROCKS At 1.30 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy had capsized in Puffin Sound. The Life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 1.34. There was a strong...

CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was...

The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...

French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...

Read the heroic story behind every gallantry medal...

LIFEBOAT GALLANTRY The Complete Record of RNLI Gallantry Medals and how they were won 1824-1996 Edited by Barry Cox, Honorary Librarian, RNLI Since the RNLI's...

Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...