LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...

Swimmers rescued from surf-swept pier supports The Chief of Operations has written to congratulate crew member Steven Tester of Littlehampton's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter I following the rescue of two swimmers on 16 July...

Poppy the Springer Spaniel had a lucky escape on Valentine’s Day after chasing a seagull and falling 90m down a cliff into the sea.

Amazingly, she survived and managed to swim back to huddle at the cliff base. Newhaven’s...

The 45 Ft 6 In Watson (Cabin) Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.Hunting Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI.

Prices 8in by Sin - £13.00, 10in...

Captain Prideaux-Brune, J.P., President of the Branch, handing the Vellum to the Mayor. On the right of the Mayor is Captain H. F. J. Rowley. C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Lifeboats.. - View image in PDF

ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...

LA SOCIETK CENTRALE DE SAUVETAGE DBS NAUFRAGES, which has its head- quarters in Paris, was established in 1865, and has done excellent work in life-saving, having been the means of rescuing, up to the 1st March last, 13,915 lives from a...