LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...

SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561 27.

OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...

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THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...

X boat used stranded on in rescue of youths rockLifeboat services are not always in heavy weather and not always to professional or amateur mariners, as a service by Douglas's Tyne this summer illustrated.

On a fine but...

A floating batmobile that could have done with being able to fly.

Shoreline member Mr K. Kendall's entry in last summer's South Kibble raft race had, for much of the seven mile course, to be carried and pulled along... - View image in PDF

A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF