LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Belgium trawler Yarmouth, wrecked on the 3rd of December, 1950. - View image in PDF

APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.

ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...

THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..

Two steamers from which the Walmer life-boat rescued eighty-three lives. In the foreground, the American Luray Victory, wrecked on January 30th, 1946; in the background, the Greek ha, wrecked on March 8th, 1947. - View image in PDF

Dressed for the job...

Suitably attired, for the lifeboat if not for their surroundings, youngsters four-year-old Lucie Polwin, her brother Ben (10) and sister Hannah (8) (right), helped their parents on flag day in... - View image in PDF

For about 20 early lifeboats which have been fitted with air bags to give them a self-righting capability, there has been the possibility, in the event of a capsize, that water could enter the mast and find its way through the exhaust system...

January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.

A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...

THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...