LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SIX BOYS STRANDED Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 6.50 p.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were stranded on a cuff at Pwllerochan.

There was a light north-easterly breeze, a...

Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low...

Walton and Frinton, Essex - at 10.48 a.m. on 3oth July, 1967, it was learnt that a motor cruiser with engine trouble had made fast to the Kentish Knock lightvessel and that the master of the lightvessel had requested that the lifeboat tow...

Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.

She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...

Britain's lifebo depend on so can you When engine dependability counts above all else, Castrol is chosen because it is proved safe for all engines ... on the sea, in the air and on the road. No other oil can match the Castrol total of...

Runswick, Yorkshire - At 1.40 p.m.

on 19th April, 1967, three Staithes fishing cobles were reported at sea and there was a heavy inshore swell on the bar at Staithes harbour. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 1...

OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....

During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for

The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...