LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boulmer, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 12th February, 1938, a vessel, which had been under observation, brought up in Alnmouth Bay. A northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The vessel was the auxiliary motor schooner...

Saved 21 GALWAY BAY LIFEBOAT, the 48ft 6in Solent R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings at 0715 on Sunday, November 9, 1986, after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Shannon had alerted the station honorary secretary to the plight of...

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Traditional rivalry between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh is being used to good effect following the declared intent of Glasgow's Lord Provost, The Right Honorable Robert Gray, JP, that the...

• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...

Saving lives with data Peter Bradley, Staff Officer (Special Projects) in the RNLI Operations department, reveals how complex 'number crunching' underpins a successful lifesaving service Each issue of the Lifeboat includes detailed...

A SPECIAL Grand Lodge of the English Free- : masons was held on the 3rd January at Free- ! masons' Hall, London, to receive and consider | the Report of the Special Committee appointed by Grand Lodge on the 6th September last, on the...