LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HALF-A-MILE from the village, close to the verge of a cliff more remarkable for its fossiliferous deposits than for height, a little wooden hut, built of wreck- timber and roofed with red tiles, stands exposed to the full fury of every storm...

APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.

A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched...

BEMBRIDGE, I.W.—At about 7 P.M. on the 14th October the City of Worcester Life-boat put off to the assistance of the Norwegian brigantine Skjold, which had lost her masts and was drifting during a W. gale. A steam-tug had arrived at the...

Building tomorrow's supportersThe RNLI is expanding its youth education programme with the appointment of regional education officers for all of its 10 regions. Their task will be to motivate a new generation of potential lifesavers and...

Every Christmas and Easter for ten years Southport Mummers Group (with St George, the King of Egypt, Beelzebub and all the others) has toured the hostelries of South Lancashire with its ancient traditional plays to collect money for the... - View image in PDF

NEWSPOINT One only has to look at the names of the RNLI's lifeboat's to realise that a large percentage of them, indeed perhaps the majority, have been funded by legacies and bear the name of the donor or a close...

Peter Brookes and Colin Evans pulling away from the rest of the fleet to win the annual New Year five-mile row organised by Maldon Little Ship Club in Essex. The event raised LI, 000 for the RNLl.

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ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...