LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...

Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty - At 10.52 a.m. on 8th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy and a boy were missing from Portmahamack. The lifeboat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will slipped her moorings at 11.24...

• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...

This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...

Small wonder We enclose a photograph (above) taken while on holiday in Cornwall. We spotted the scene at Polruan whilst waiting for the ferry to Fowey. The picture still makes us smile; is it a new class of lifeboat?—DAVID AND STEPHANIE... - View image in PDF

Three days later Dover coastguard reported to Hastings station honorary secretary at 1030 on Monday July 16, that the Belgian yacht, Kotique, had engine trouble and needed a lifeboat.

As the station's 37ft Oakley class...

JANUARY Launches 35 Lives rescued 39 JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was...

Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.

The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking...