LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.

They are both gifts from Glasgow.

St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...

High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...

AFTER a fortnight of incessant rain, the weather changed for the better, and on 17th July, 1972, everything seemed set fair for a successful lifeboat week. The piece de resistance was to be a display by a Royal Navy helicopter from...

THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...

Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 3.38 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1956.

the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that two men were marooned on an old wreck close in shore in Inganess Bay. He reported that the coast- guard...

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