LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...

LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...

The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...

THE number of stations in the United States Life-Saving Service at the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1907, was 278, the same as that on the correspond- ing date in the previous year. Of this number, which was subdivided into thir-...

Notes of the Quarter 3 Lifeboat Services 5 XT JX Lifeboat Open Days 1984,Poole 12 487 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 12 The naming at Cowes of RNLB Sir Max Aitken II 13 Chairman- a Safe— art 1- caPsizing and righting, by James Paffett, RCNC...

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Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...

Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...