LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI Andy Huggelt: 2nd coxswain ana deputy mechanic. Eastbourne lifeboat.

He'll face 30ft waves, force 9 gales and sub-zero temperatures.

All you face is an application form.

Every...

Anyone who thinks the world of Freemasonry is shrouded in mystery and self-service obviously didn’t get a taste of OrangeAid. Alluding to the distinctive RNLI lifeboat livery, the OrangeAid appeal saw Essex members of the United Grand Lodge...

IT would appear from a Yellow Book published in March last by order of the Inspector-General of Customs at Pekin that no Life-boats or life-saving stations are established along the coast of China excepting those in the district of Canton,...

ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.

capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...

MAY MEETING RINGFORD, Co. ANTRIM. Two men went out in a very small boat, on the 27th October, 1941, to lift lobster pots. A moderately strong and squally off-shore wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Apparently the small boat got into...

The request for medical assistance from a German cargo ship led to a call for Margate's Mersey class lifeboat, Leonard Kent, on New Year's Eve 1 998 when one of the ship's crew had to be evacuated after badly breaking his leg...

Dear Editor

I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.

The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...

By COUNT KOZO YOSHII, President of Teikoku Suinan Kinsaikai (the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society).[Count Kozo Yoshii represented the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society at the International Life-boat Conference held in London, in July of...