LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Their fundraising roots lie in the 19th century, but today’s branches continue to attract new members and raise millions of pounds. How do they do it?

From the first Lifeboat Saturday street...

ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...

Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...

Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...

• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...

Yacht in shoal water RED FLARES were sighted to seaward south of the harbour by Lowestoft Coastguard on the morning of April 13.

The honorary secretary, informed at 0448, gave instructions for maroons to be fired and the...

Speedboats capsize MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF MARGATE'S 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat were in the boathouse on the afternoon of Sunday August 3, 1986, cleaning the lifeboatafter an earlier service call when a message came through that two...

SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...