LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...

The lugger Twilight, of Inverness, when bound on the night of 4th October to Lowestoft for the herring fishing, stranded on the South Scroby Sands. There was a strong N.N.E. breeze with a heavy sea at the time, and their signals of distress...

Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly

Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...

Above: The new 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat at Red Bay, Co Antrim, is launched from her carriage. In the summer the station is kept busy with many holidaymakers attracted to this impressive part of the coast. The Mull of Kintyre on... - View image in PDF

OCTOBER 2ND. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At two in the afternoon the lifeboat coxswain saw a vessel aground on the Inner Newcombe Shoal. She refloated, grounded again, and remained fast. The tide was ebbing, and a moderate sea...

The crew of Dover lifeboat, a/1 of whom received medals following ike service to the sinking cargo ship Sumnia on October 16, 1987. Pictured aboard the relief Tyne class Good Shepherd on the Thames before they were awarded their medals by... - View image in PDF

Women's Work . . .

. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.

by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...

OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...