LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Words: Philly Byrde
Research: Hayley Whiting
Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI Archive,
RNLI/(Chris Cousens, Fishguard)

Fifty years ago, the very first Blue Peter lifeboats went to their new...

A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.

Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...

Yankie Doodle Dandy Children attending Lakenheath American Elementary school at RAF Lakenheath ran laps for four days in support of the RNLI.

Nearly 1,300children took part in theevent and raised £4,353 in sponsorship...

About a fortnight later, the same Life- boat was able to effect the rescue of another Shipwrecked crew. A strong gale from the E.N.E. was experienced there on the 10th February, and, about ten o'clock at night, a vessel was observed...

Caister, Norfolk. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1959, the coastguard at Gorleston informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was making little headway in a very rough sea off North Scroby buoy. A later report from the...

JUNE MEETING PORTREATH, CORNWALL. At 9.10 in the morning of the 7th January, 1942, a coastguard saw a rubber dinghy in the sea one and a half miles N.W. of Portreath look-out.

A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...

Montrose, Angus. — - 7 t h August.

Red flares had been seen near Red Head, but were found to be fireworks and not distress signals.—Rewards, £12 14s..

Dover, Kent.—23rd June. An aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea, but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £4 14s. 6d..