LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...

The end of HMS Foudroyant, one of Nelson's flagships which in her last years was used as a training ship for boys. White anchored off Blackpool on June 16, 1897, a gale blew up and she dragged aground. The lifeboat Samuel Fletcher of... - View image in PDF

A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.

C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...

Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...

THE Prince of Wales, President of the Institution, the Duke of York, Prince Henry, Prince George, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Princess Victoria, have all accepted for use on. their cars...

OCTOBER 4TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. While a number of fishing boats were out the weather became stormy and all returned except the Gem, of Skibbereen.

When she was long overdue the relatives of her crew of three asked for...

BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....

THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.

Although the Society ("...