LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

48 Hours of Gale (from page 250) Broughty Ferry: 1LB launched at 1700 in choppy seas and a fresh southeasterly wind to help a capsized dinghy one mile east of the station, The crew of three were landed and their boat towed to the...

AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...

LIFE-BOAT BRINGS EXPECTANT MOTHER TO HOSPITAL Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 8th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of an exceptional blizzard in Kintyre every road was...

Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...

RNLI lifeboats launched an amazing 8,141 times in 2007, rescuing 7,834 people around the UK and RoI. RNLI lifeguards on 71 English beaches rescued 1,350 people and responded to 8,201 incidents. The charity’s Flood Rescue team (previously the...

Happy new year! With fresh new (RNLI Shop) diaries in hand, we’re making plans for the year ahead. And 2019 is shaping up to be a busy one.

So what happens when an RNLI coxswain or a mechanic needs to plan some well-earned...

Competition Crossword COXSWAIN ARTHUR LiDDON of Dover, who has compiled this crossword puzzle, is kindly giving as a prize for the first correct solution to be opened a colour enlargement of Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful...

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...