LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BOGGED and rough the rocks of Albion's coast Stretch forth into the billows reef on reef, And many gallant vessels, tempest tost, There yearly come to grief.

Still, week by week the weary winter through, Braving the...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

ONCE AGAIN, to look back at the Boat Show is to look back on eleven happy and successful days. With the help of volunteer Shoreline members on the RNLI stand and of our friends at the Midland Bank stand, we enrolled 528 new members and a...

TRAWLER LOST PROPELLER At 4.10 p.m. on 26th November, 1965, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the Newlyn trawler Jacqueline had lost her propeller and that another trawler, the Trewarveneth, had attempted to give a tow but in...

THE Life-boat Institution's depot at Boreham Wood was completed in July, 1939. It replaced the old store-yard on the Thames at Poplar, which had served the Institution for more than fifty years.

The Poplar store-yard...

Coaster on rocks A VESSEL on the rocks at Prawle Point was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by Prawle Point Coastguard at 2233 on Sunday December 16, 1979. Less than ten minutes later Salcombe's 47ft Watson...

High seas healing up against Scarborough hoatliouse doors in the January storms. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of Dennis Dobson.. - View image in PDF

Cyril Sidney Williams, former coxswain/mechanic of the Walmer lifeboat. Cyril was appointed assistant mechanic of the Walmer lifeboat in 1970 and became second coxswain/mechanic in 1974. He was appointed coxswain/mechanic in 1982, a position...