LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

E - U - R - O - P - E - S L - A - R - G - E - S - T The European Workboat Show has expanded rapidly and successfully with last year's visitors voting the show a huge success.

Well over 5000 trade visitors, from over 40...

Ian picks the winners Ian Ventham, RNLI Head of Fundraising and Marketing, (pictured with Judith Saint, Finance and Systems Manager) drew the winners of the Lifeboat Lottery on 29 October. The 87th draw, which took place at lifeboat...

LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...

New BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. About eleven in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1944, two men in the motor fishing boat Maud, of New Brighton, were fishing six miles eastsouth- east of the Bar Lightship. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a...

AUGUST 29TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 6.12 in the evening the coastguard reported that a motor boat was making distress signals three miles east of Cresswell village. A strong south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a...

Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.

Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...

At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.

breeze was blowing with a heavy...

Lives saved.

Ada, ketch, of Gloucester—stood by vessel.

Admiral, smack, of Lowestoft (also saved a dog and a cat) ... 9 Algethi, steamer, of Sborebam— rendered assistance.

Annie,...