LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberdeen, Scotland. At 11.15 on the night of the 27th of October, 1959, the trawler David Ogilvie of Aberdeen was reported to have broken adrift from her moorings in the River Dee. Attempts to take her in tow were made by a pilot cutter and...

As from 1 September 1993 the Central England and Southern fundraising regions ceased to exist, and their respective Regional Offices closed. The branches previously in those regions have been transferred to other regions as listed below.<...

The Story of the Filey Lifeboats The Story of the Buckie Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author, prices and availability in text Two more new editions of Jeff Morris's authoritative lifeboat station histories, each brought...

MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.

The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...

The inshore lifeboat station at Cowes, Isle of Wight, joined the RNLI fold on 1 July.

The trustees of the town’s independent lifeboat service, which had been serving the community for 19 years, asked the RNLI to take on...

The National Association of Round Tables of  Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.

The...

AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...

During a heavy gale from N.E., on the 16th January, the Bessie, of Hayle, a new screw-collier, worth 10,000/., went a shore on Hayle Bar. She soon became firmly imbedded in the sand, and her crew, consisting of 9 men, had to take to the fore...