LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...

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A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Coxswain Walter B. West, Assistant Motor Mechanic Ronald F. Twydle, and Cyril J. Barnicoat, shore...

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Helman Head, and ten minutes later more flares were seen six miles east of Clythness...

On 19 October some 200 people gathered in Brighton Marina village square for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Thelma Glossop which was funded by Mr and Mrs Roy Glossop, in memory of Mr Glossop's first wife,... - View image in PDF

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Active Membership The numbers of those joining the Institution's membership scheme have continued to grow apace during the early months of 1990, and the active membership now totals 27,142...

Lifeboat car? In late September when driving from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, I passed a Triumph saloon car towing a caravan, the car bearing the registration RNL 1 which was condensed to read RNLI. The car also bore an RNLI flag on the...

At 5.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the life-boat station at Exmouth, Devon, was informed that rockets had been seen off Lyme Regis, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton. A gale was blowing from...