LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...

Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.

Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...

THE LIFEBOAT Anjn class lifeboat OM-1150 Hibtrntt Built 1989 Cost £600.000 Funding A very generous donation from the Irish Sailor* and Soldier* L*nd Truft. which also provided funding toward* th« running of lifeboat* in Ireland THE...

Dungeness, Kent. —At 11.50 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, the Lade coastguard reported a dinghy off Littlestone making distress signals, and at noon the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a light breeze with...

Awards To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's...

Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...

Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...

THE DUCHESS OF KENT NAMES THE PADSTOW LIFE-BOAT On the left, Commander T. G. Michelmore, T.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats; behind the Duchess, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., Secretary of the Institution (See page... - View image in PDF