LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 2nd Sep- tember, at three p.m., a vessel was observed aground on the Arklow bank, 8 or "9 miles distant from Arklow. The life-boat of that place proceeded at once to her aid, when *he found a heavy sea breaking over and around...

SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...

ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.

Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...

IN 1949 sixty golf clubs held competi- tions in aid of the Life-boat Service, as compared with sixty-five in 1948, and in the Institution received from them £273 as compared with £278 1948..

Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...

Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham, Director of the RNLI, visited Newcastle lifeboat station during a tour of Ireland lust December. With him lire (I. to r.) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy, Crew Member Jim Smyth, Second Coxswain Samuel McCulli ugh.... - View image in PDF

Whitby’s Trent class lifeboat was launched on 20 July 2008 at 11.30pm to help the historic fishing vessel Reaper, which had suffered engine failure and was taking on water. In force 7 winds and a 4m swell, the volunteers transferred their...

RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle retired in September after 10 years’ service.

During his time at the RNLI, Andrew led on the creation and introduction of the world’s first Lifeboat College; a world-class lifeguard...