LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 46, 59, and 65, the following launches on service were made during the months of September to November, 1966, inclusive: Abersoch,...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

November 1998 David (Dave) Cargill MBE, Arbroath ex-mechanic. Dave joined the RNLI as as mechanic in 1973 a position he held for 22 years. He was awarded the MBE in 1995..

THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight...

OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.

A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...

Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF