LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on 3oth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small fishing boats which had put out in fine weather had got into difficulties when the weather suddenly became worse. The life-boat...

In a candid letter, sailor and RNLI supporter John Sinclair explains why he had to be rescued twice in the early hours of 22 March

'I anchored my 6m yacht Blue Dragon in Moelfre Bay...

Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, M.P., Minister of Transport, looking at the Institution's medal which Acting-Coxswain Pow was wearing, awarded to his grandfather, Captain John Marshall, in 1850.. - View image in PDF

A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...

Dark Blackpool When a man in a 5m angling boat off Blackpool had difficulty landing in force 5 winds and darkness, he aborted the attempt and took the boat back out to sea. It was 21 December 2004 and the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Bickerstaffe...

On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...

NOVEMBER 1988: Captain George Flett, coxswain of Aberdeen lifeboat from I949to I960 when he resigned due to ill health. He was second coxswain from 1937 to 1943 and was awarded a bronze medal in 1937..

Mrs Dorothy Ewart, vice president of the Dover ladies lifeboat guild from 1981 until her death in her 97th year. Mrs Ewart was a vice chairman from 1965 to 1974 and chairman from 1974 to 1981. She was awarded the silver badge in...