LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LiFeBoAt LotterY Lifeboat Lottery Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never...

At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...

North Deal.

In then* long record of service the.

men of the North Deal Life-boat have rarely been so severely tried as they were in the galea, at the beginning of last November. A whole gale from E.N.E....

97th lottery A brand new Suzuki Ignis was the first prize in the spring Lifeboat Lottery, thanks to Britannia Rescue who kindly donated the car. The winning tickets were picked by lifeboat crew members and representatives of Suzuki and... - View image in PDF

In July, chartered surveyor Paul Rocky successfully completed the Avon challenge - a 50 mile row upstream along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford - to raise cash for the lifeboats.

• Paul's time (excluding stops)... - View image in PDF

Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...

NOVEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An air-sea rescue launch’s engine had broken down, but she was able to repair it and go on her way. - Rewards, £7 5s..

THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...