LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Libby Purves, introduces All at Sea, during the launching of the book by Fontana and the RNLI at The Marine Society on March 5. With her are (r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, and (I) Ray Kipling, public relations officer,... - View image in PDF

WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 30th of January, 1956, the weather worsened while three fishing cobles were at sea, and at 2.20 the life-boat E.C.J.R, was launched.

There was a very rough sea, a mod- erate...

OCTOBER 19TH.. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.

About one o’clock in the afternoon, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Lady Betty, with only one man on board, had broken down and was drifting out to sea towards the...

Plymouth, Devon - At 5.15 p.m. on 22nd June, 1966, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Roivse proceeded to Mount Wise pier to meet the Commander- in-Chief, Plymouth, and Lady Talbot who were to go out on exercise with the boat. At 5.45,...

SEPTEMBER 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

Early in the morning news was received at both stations through the coastguard, from the naval authorities, that the naval salvage vessel Salvage King was...

FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...

Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...