LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st September to 30th November: Launches 401, lives saved 195 SEPTEMBER SCOTTISH DISTRICT Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.50 p.m.

on r6th September, 1966, a message was received...

Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...

THE following account of how visitors from Bolton contributed to the funds of the Fleetwood Branch, appeared in the Bolton Journal and Guardian on 12th July.

" A number of Boltonians on holiday at Fleetwood last week...

AUGUST 1910: DONAGHADEE station was established, its first boat being one of the earliest motor lifeboats in the Institution's fleet, a 43' Watson with a 40 hp engine capable of nearly 7 knots.

August 1975: it was...

ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...

With warmer weather and longer days finally here, RNLI stations are preparing for their Summer festivities. See you there!

Portpatrick Lifeboat Week
Set...

[Abridged from the Newcastle-on- Tyne Daily Papers.] THE new life-boat, recently presented by GEORGE JOHN FENWICK, Esq., to the port of Tynemouth, was launched there on Friday, the 13th November, with an unusual degree of ceremony. The boat...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1893, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in the Chair, the...