LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cwmbran branch and Parsley Hay country dance band recently organised a ceilidh at Cwmbran Rugby Club in aid of the RNLI. You can see from the above photograph that the band fully entered into the spirit of the occasion - but this comes as no... - View image in PDF

'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...

A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.

THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. — On the 29th August, at about 9 A.M., a telegram was received from Brighton stating that a vessel flying a signal of distress had passed that town and was drifting, quite disabled, towards Newhaven, having lost her...

January 29, 1976: British Airways helicopter lifts off crew of 17 from trawler Ben Gulvain when, with engine failure, she had run aground near Aberdeen in gale force winds.

photograph by courtesy of Miss I. M.... - View image in PDF

The lucky winners of the Spring Lottery will enjoy a really splendid prize - a fly/drive holiday, with accommodation, for two people to New England, USA. There they will enjoy the rugged coastline of Maine, the history and charm of Boston,... - View image in PDF

A MAJOR new boat building programme was decided upon by the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, at its February meeting. As anA Sister's Thanks The following is an extract from a letter received by Captain J. B. Jones, O.B.E.,...

FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.