LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On station D-659 George Godfrey Benbow (pictured), Howth, 7 February 2006 (D-530 withdrawn) B-775 Millennium Forester, Plymouth, 27 January 2006 D-657 Sally, Lytham St Annes, 18 April 2006 (D-509 withdrawn to the relief fleet) D-652 Team...

LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...

Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...

The Royal National Life-boat Institution at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, is continuing to benefit from the sale of Tales told by a Squirrel—a kindly little book for animal lovers which was written by the late Mrs. M....

(Below) After her naming by Lady Aitken, the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir Max Aitken takes guests for a demonstration trip.. - View image in PDF

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..

THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...