LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., Junior Minister, Board of Trade, visited the Walton life-boat station and the Harwich life-boat on 22nd February, 1968. Here he is talking to Coxswain-Mechanic P. Burwood of the 44-foot steel life-boat Margaret... - View image in PDF

There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...

4 May this year marked the 200th anniversary of Sunderland lifeboat station, the first RNLI station in England to reach this landmark. To mark this occasion, a dinner and disco was held at The Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland Football... - View image in PDF

Posing for the camera are the 45 new members of Storm Force, all pupils at St Patrick's Primary School, Troon, Scotland. They are pictured with the coxswain of the local lifeboat, Ian Johnson (back row, left), the second coxswain Tom... - View image in PDF

In a February blizzard, four sick people needed to be evacuated from the Isle of Mull.

The local ferry was unable to dock in the conditions, which were also too much for the air ambulance. Oban all-weather lifeboat was the...

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(.Incorporated try Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRTBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

Her Most Gracious Majesty...

BEMBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT, and SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE. — During a strong S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 12th March, a message was received stating that a large vessel was being driven rapidly ashore at Hayling Island and that unless assistance...

The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF