LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...

IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...

WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...

As the Lifeboat went to print, the rescue reports coming in from our lifeboat stations and lifeguard units showed 2013 is set to be one of the busiest Summers on record. People flocked to the coast during the sunny days of July, which was...

IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...

IS YOUR CAPITAL EARNING THE HIGHEST INCOME IT CAN? IF NOT, WHY SETTLE for SECOND BEST? So many people give very little thought as to where their capital should be invested.

With inflation running at its present level,...

Carrickfergus, co. ANTRIM. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat station at Carrickfergus, on Belfast Lough, it being considered most important, in view of the great shipping...

BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...