LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three men from Ramsey lifeboat station have laid claim to being the first Manxmen to climb the rigging of an 1863-built full-rigged sailing ship since the Ramsey-built vessel last left the island some 100 years ago... And what were they...

MR. TOM BOWMAN, the assistant tractor driver, Rhyl, had his car stolen from outside the boathouse while he was engaged on a launch on Good Friday. His son and Mr. Peter Hughes, both members of the Life-boat Guild, were in the boathouse at...

Launches 64 Lives rescued 28

JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...

As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.

At the time of writing, a trial was about to...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1949, the Gravir Post Office telephoned that a vessel between the Shiant Isles was sounding her whistle, and the life- boat William and Harriot was launched at...

The Mary Stanford Disaster by Geoff Hutchinson published by the author at £2.25 plus 50p post and packing ISBN 095199361 5 First published in 1984 The Mary Stanford Disaster, recounting the events at Rye Harbour in 1928, has been...

PENZANCE.—This Life-boat establish- ment has been entirely renewed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a handsome new boat-house, provided with a bell-turret and bell, having been erected on a more convenient site, granted to the...

The Shannon class – a new generation of all-weather lifeboat – is now ready to rescue after the first station lifeboat went on service at Dungeness, Kent.

The lifeboat, designed in-house by RNLI naval architects, harnesses...