LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Life-boat Institution's depot at Boreham Wood was completed in July, 1939. It replaced the old store-yard on the Thames at Poplar, which had served the Institution for more than fifty years.

The Poplar store-yard...

Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a...

Amble, Northumberland. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men had been seen cling- ing to a dinghy which had capsized at the north end of Coquet Island. There was a light...

Alpine Tour BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fabulous 15-day holiday through the Alps. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit back, relax and enjoy the...

On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...

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AT the annual meeting, the Duke of San Lucar la Mayor, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, announced the awards which the Spanish Life-boat Society had made for the rescue of 23 lives from the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu in the Bristol...

Man in the Run HEARING FROM the Coastguard, at 1546 on November 9, 1974, that a 999 call had reported that a man had fallen into the Run at Mudeford, both Michael Parker and his wife Sally, the station administrative officer, ran out of...