LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

MB. BOWEN has performed a public ser- vice in writing this book, which sets forth in a straightforward, and at times almost prosaic, way the romantic history of the sea and its ships. We use the word " prosaic " advisedly, for what...

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Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...

Aberdovey’s newest crew member, Steve Bowen (18), has been following the family’s RNLI tradition since he was 2 years old.

Steve was the star of a UK-wide RNLI advertising campaign in 1992. His father Dave, who was on the...

The Padstow steam life-boat James Stevens No, 4 photographed in 1899 and a year before she capsized on 11th April, 1900, with the loss of eight of her crew.

(Left) The Padstow life-boat Arab pictured on 11th April, 1900,... - View image in PDF

For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...