LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mrs Mabel Horspool, vice president of holyhead ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Horspool joined the guild in 1952 and held several offices. She was awarded the Gold badge in 1992..

Our lifesavers rescue thousands every Summer, but not everyone can be saved. That’s why the RNLI has launched its biggestever campaign – and why a father in mourning has bravely spoken about why everybody should Respect the Water...

Awards for helmsman and crew members of Cleethorpes D class A service by Cleethorpes' D class inflatable in winds of up to storm Force 10 to five canoeists and a yacht has earned the helmsman, David Steenvoorden, the Institution's...

25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...

On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world

The passenger...

Aground on rocks A MEMBER OF LYME REGIS inshore lifeboat crew informed his honorary secretary at 1300 on Sunday, July 18, that a cabin cruiser was being driven on to Broad Ledge Rocks, half a mile east of the ILB station, and that one of her...

Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork - At 6.45 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, a member of the public told the coxswain that a small boat was drifting off Barry's point. Later the honorary secretary, who had asked for confirmation of the distress, saw the...

THE LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I, P.C., who died in January, 1947, at the age of eighty-six, after an astonishingly full life of public service, had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1926, and was appointed a...