LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As we draw into the last quarter of 2012, we can reflect on a year of awards and celebrations.

Our Patron continued her travels around the RNLI (see page 4), we appointed an inspiring new Council member (28), and...

Nov. 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 6.49 A.M.. a message was received at the Humber lifeboat station from the Spurn Head Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel one and a half miles south-west from Withernsea...

Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...

CONTINUOUS CREDIT ACCOUNT Buy today, buy tomorrow it's up to you!...

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A Bronze Medal Service by the Torbay Motor Life-boat.

ON the night of 30th December, 1935, the motor life-boat at Torbay carried out a service which showed in a striking way the value of wireless in life-boat...

The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...

New Brighton New Brighton's new purpose-built lifeboat station was officially opened by the Mayor of Wirral, Councillor Mike Cooke, on 28 April 1990 in beautiful spring weather.

The building replaces a prefabricated... - View image in PDF

EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...