LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...

Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...

Small tanker AT 2135 ON Friday January 9 Hartland Coastguard asked Clovelly lifeboat to stand by ready to launch to go to the help of a small tanker, MV Pass of Dirriemore, laden with chemicals. She was disabled with mechanical failure...

A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.

HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...

From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...

• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.

The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...

We’ve all had to sort through junk mail – a lot of it goes straight in the recycling and some is put aside for that lazy afternoon when we might want to order pizza, a taxi or a window cleaner. Charities send unsolicited mail too but, for...

Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboat launched 3,745 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,491 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).

Over 35 per cent of all services carried...