LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A CENTENARY DINNER AND DANCE Was held at the Royal Hotel, Clacton, on April 21, 1978, at which Raymond Baxter, guest of honour and a member of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, presented the centenary vellum to the branch president,...

Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.

D class...

NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...

ON two sunshining days in May Prin- cess Marina, Duchess of Kent and President of the Institution, named new life-boats which will serve two stations on the Welsh coast, Llandudno in North Wales and St. David's in the south.

On the South and East Coasts.

On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.

of the steam-tanker M....

Launches 35 Lives rescued 8 JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the...

Arklow 

LAP OF THE MAP

2018 marks Mary Hickey’s 50th year in athletics and she continues to go from strength to strength. On New Year’s Day she set off from Arklow, Co Wicklow, heading north on the...

Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...