LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI lifeguards save lives on beaches around the UK and sometimes ‘Down Under’, but their skills can be called into practice in far more unusual locations.Kirstin Prisk was 7 hours into a fl ight from London to New York when he noticed...

Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.

The IRB was...

'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.

' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...

Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.

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History of the membership scheme Sir - It is evident from your columns that there is some confusion as to the origins of the membership scheme. Consequently I feel it is time to put the record straight.

At its March meeting...

• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...

A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...