LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Criccieth, Gwynedd, is the first RNLI lifeboat station to take delivery of an Arancia inshore rescue boat.

She is on an extended trial to assess her capabilities, and has been called on for a number of rescues, including a...

THE Institution is at present engaged on a major programme of construction and modernization, and at the time of going to press there are no fewer than 17 new life-boats in various stages of construc- tion. The total cost of this boat...

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...

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8,125 1 - To NEW LIFE-BOATS, (exclusive of carriages and equipment) for the following Stations :— Abersoch, Atherfleld, Boul- mer, Biighsione Grange, Cahore, Caister (No. 2), Cul- daff,...

Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...

Builders of the World's finest Yachts, are proud to have been selected to build four of the new 48 ft.

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Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...

By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.

THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.

The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...