LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.

It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF

Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.

but there...

0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.

RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...

A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...

The Hartland (Devon) life-saving apparatus company has been awarded the Minister of Transport's shield for the best wreck service for the year 1962- 1963. The award has been made for the rescue of the crew of seven of the Royal Fleet...

The Roval Tav Yacht Club Dundee wax the venue for the Bell's Charily Bottle smash in aid of the RNLI. The bottle, held bv David Bruce of Bell's Scotch Whisky, was smashed open bv Hugh Scott (second coxswain), watched by Stuart... - View image in PDF

THE new life-boat being built for Aith, Shetland Islands, will be exhibited at the International Boat Show, sponsored by the Daily Express, at Earls Court in London, from the 4th to the 14th of January, 1961. Space to exhibit this boat has...