LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lt Cdr Brian Miles, the Director of the RNLI, was awarded a CBE in the New Year's honours list in recognition of his service to the Institution.

Cdr Miles joined the RNLI in 1964 as Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats in...

The seas off the north of Scotland and around Orkney and Shetland can be unforgiving and, in the worst of weathers, will catch out even the largest of ships. The safety of mariners and sea users in the area is overseen by the Maritime and... - View image in PDF

NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...

LEAVING the main line at Twyford on the ; Great Western Railway, we proceed by a small local line to Henley, passing through Shiplake, a small station where the j Thames is crossed. This village is situ- ated at the foot of hilly slopes, on...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.

At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...

Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...

BUDEHAVEN, NORTH CORNWALL. —On the 9th of October last, the Margaret, a sloop belonging to Bideford, was observed to strike heavily on the Chapel-rock, off the entrance of Budehaven, and then to bound off into deep water, evidently with...

THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.

It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...