LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(Left) For Mrs A. W. Browne, who named Inner Wheel, a bouquet; for Tracey Coles, the young daughter of Crew Member David Coles, a memento of the occasion in return. - View image in PDF

photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...

AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 9.16 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, red rockets were seen, fired from a boat in Oxwich Bay. At 9.30 the life-boat William Gammon - Manchester and District XXX was launched in a moderate south-westerly wind and a...

Launches 17. Lives rescued 7.

JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oyster haven, and the motor life-boat City of...

BROADSTAIRS.— The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched at 10 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of the brig Guide, which had been in collision in the Downs, and had lost both her anchors. The wind was blowing a strong gale...

ANOTHER YEAR has come to an end, and what a good year it has been for Shoreline. In the 12 months of 1980, 12,000 new members were enrolled— the largest number so far in any one year. That such a fine result was achieved is due to the great...

A great success, particularly with its many young visitors: that was the verdict on the Modern Lifeboat exhibition held from February 21 to April 21 at the South Kensington Science Museum, London. School parties, more than 700 of them, came...