LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

It's 27 March 1941. Two days after being attacked by a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers, the SS Somali, a large convoy ship, burns a mile off the Northumberland coast. Intent on saving her cargo, crew from a salvage tug board to assess the...

FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.

H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...

Amble, Northumberland.—When the local fishing fleet was returning from sea on the morning of the 18th of Sep- tember, 1952, the boats found it diffi- cult to enter the harbour owing to the heavy swell. At 11.15 in the morning- the life-boat...

AT 7.8 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary of the Barrow, Lancashire, lifeboat station, Mr. T. Downing, was told by the Superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Holyhead that a member of the crew of the...

Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole

Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...

Head Protection (continued from page 265) including wind tunnel work; as a result an RNLI designed wrap around visor (see photograph, page 265) was found to offer the best combination of desirable optical properties and protection. NRDC has...

1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.

It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...

MR. WILLIAM HENRY JONES, the former coxswain of the New Brighton life-boat, was drowned on April 25th last, while out fishing with his son Thomas. Their boat went aground on the way to Rock Channel, off New Brighton, and Cox- swain Jones was...