LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...

AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...

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MARCH No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 4.30 p.m. on 28th March, 1970, the life-boat's motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for assistance off Scarlet point. After confirmation...

Coxswain Alan Thomas of Tenby. Alan Thomas joined the Tenby lifeboat crew in 1966, was assistant motor mechanic from 1972 to 1974 and served as second coxswain from 1974 to 1982 when he became coxswain. He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF

THE motor life-boat Herbert Joy, the gift of Mr. Alexander O. Joy, of London, which was at one time sta- tioned at Scarborough, and is now in the Institution's reserve fleet at Poplar, went up the Thames on 24th November to take part in...

Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...