LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...

Coxswain Robin Castle Station: Sheerness Boat: 44ft Waveney Helen Turnbull Conditions: Wind SSW Force 15, sea 20-25ft high, visibility poor in rain and spray.

Service: Rescued two survivors from 16ft angling boat anchored... - View image in PDF

Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on...

Nine-year-old Jennifer Stone of Onchan, Isle of Man, was determined to say 'thank you' to members of the Douglas lifeboat crew who rescued her last year when she and her uncle were cut off by the tide when walking along the shoreline... - View image in PDF

Three RNLI lifesavers were recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2012. Retired Newhaven Coxswain Ian Johns received an MBE for services to maritime safety. Ian was on the lifeboat crew for 37 years.

Arran Lifeboat...

SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...

Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.

West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...

MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.

accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...