LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 9.53 a.m. on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was reported in distress about six miles south of Hastings. At 10.7 the rifeboat Fairlight was launched in a southwesterly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat...

25th De- cember. The Swedish steamer Bella, of Gothenburg, stranded, but the crew got ashore without help.—Rewards, £18 15s..

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 August 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,058 times (an average of 9 launches a day) 585 lives were saved (an average of two a day) Some 6% of all...

PROTECTED BY GAY'S PAINTS FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY The superiority and extreme quality of Gay's paint is such that for well over 50 years Gay's products have been used by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to protect and...

R.N.LI, rely on Mermaid THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...

Lifeboats have been operating from the remote coastal village of Baltimore, on the South coast of Ireland, since 1919. With the infamous Fastnet Rock standing defiant nearby, the crew is kept very busy - with no less than 10 medals for... - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...

A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.

Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s...