LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN THE PAST tWO JSSUCS of THE LIFEBOAT I have asked members of my staff to give you an insight into their work within the department and I think you will agree that this has caused a fair amount of interest. So in this issue I would like to...

In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?

Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...

MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 5th March, during a very heavy gale from the S.S.E., and an exceedingly heavy sea, accompanied by a snowstorm, the schooner Agnes, of Llanelly, bound thence to Newcastle, while running for Montrose Harbour, went ashore...

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

ON April 21st, in preparation for Life-boat Day meeting of in Greater London, Honorary Secretariesand other Organizers was held at the house of Lady Burnham, who not only entertained them to tea,but presided over the meeting, which numbered...

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...

The evolution of the humble swimsuit tells an interesting story of wider social conventions …

Daft costumes are the order of the day when it comes to a festive fundraising dip for charity but,...

• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...