LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Salcombe, Devon.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1954, a man swimming off Gara Rocks wasreported to be in danger. At 1.30 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched. The sea was choppy and a moderate...

WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...

STUDENTS RESCUED Clovelly, Devon. At 3.50 p.m. on yth May, 1964, the life-boat coxswain reported that two students on holiday had taken a hired rowing boat westward beyond Gallantry Bower. As they would have been unable to return against the...

POLISH YACHT AGROUND Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At one minute past nine on the morning of Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message that a large yacht had gone aground in the vicinity of Barrow No. 6 buoy and...

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Mayor of Poole picks the winners Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat...

medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...