LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...

Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..

Launches 49 Lives rescued 31 NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the...

How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1933.

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36 1 6 H MHU HMI HB HBB Sulisci'lpt ions, Donations and Lifeboat Days.

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Adam (32) works in a boat chandlers. He finished his probationary period and became a full crew member in March 2005. - View image in PDF

Yacht aground WHILE A RACE FROM ABERSOCH Was being timed into Howth Harbour at about 2330 on Saturday, August 28, 1976, the yacht Sulabassana of Holyhead, a 32' Nicholson, attempted to pass inside the buoys marking the rocks off the end...

THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...

AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...