LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 5th December, 1970, m.f.v. Upernavik of Esbjerg with five people on board went ashore at Bressay. The Lerwick, Shetland, life-boat Southern Africa on temporary duty at the station slipped her moorings at 1.2. There was a westerly gale...

APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred yards off Butlin’s Camp. A moderately strong N.W....

FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...

THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...

On the 20th July, at 7 P.M., the Life- boat was launched during a very heavy N.W. gale, in response to signals of dis- tress shown from the schooner Adroit, of Aberystwith, at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay. At the request of the master, his...

To raise money for the Nottinghamshire appeal, Andrew Foss, a young Shoreline member, had the idea of painting an outline 33ft Brede lifeboat on a piece of hardboard.

He and his friend Adrian Hall (they are both 12 years... - View image in PDF

Coxswain David Clemence of Ilfracombe who was presented with a bronze medal at the awards ceremony on May 21 by the Duke of Atholl. Coxswain Clemence joined the lifeboat crew in 1954; he served as second coxswain for just three months before... - View image in PDF

Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF