LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.8. on the evening of the 27th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Sunny Seas needed help one mile west of Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 8.16. The sea...

Off-duty lifeguard saves body-boarder When a man was caught by a rip current and swept towards some rocks at Newquay, Rod MacDonald, an off-duty Beach Rescue lifeguard, acted instinctively and bravely to save the man's lifeOff-duty Beach...

At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore

‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...

We've songs in praise of men of fame, Of men who've fought and bled, Whose names still live in history, Though they themselves are dead.

But I'll not sing of heroes gone, My burthen now shall be Our gallant...

Presenting Hector, the King of Egypt, St George, Old Ben, Beelzebub, the Quack Doctor, Little Devil Doubt, the Turkish Knight and Slasher, just some of the characters from the Southport Mummers who perform ancient and traditional plays in... - View image in PDF

AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...

On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...

The news agency caption said: 'Life-boat designer, Mr. Richard Oakley, went down with his ship—and came up smiling'. The occasion? Capsizing trials at Portsmouth on 23rd June, 1966, when the second 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat was... - View image in PDF