LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NIGHT SEARCH THE life-boat at Buckie, BanfFshire, was launched on 8th August, 1971, because the 20-foot motor ketch Lillian, which had left Findochty at 3 p.m.

for Hopeman, had not arrived at her...

BooKS A lifeboating selection to inspire, thrill and ponder Asboville by Danny Rhodes Asboville may not sound like it has any relevance to the RnLi, however a lifeboat crew member plays a key part in this surprising...

WINTERTON.—At the termination of a very heavy snowstorm at about 5 P.M. on the 25th January a light and rockets were shown by a vessel which had stranded on the beach about three-quarters of a mile S. of the light-house. The No. 1 Life-boat...

Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.

DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...

MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp

Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....

HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...

THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....