LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tour takes in six stations His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the RNLI's president, visited six Essex coast lifeboat stations in July, meeting lifeboat crew members and their families, station officials and members of the...

ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...

Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the Ports- mouth naval authorities had reported that the fleet tender Sybella (M.F.V.

1564) had gone aground east of Beachy...

AMIDST the fearful events of the war, which at this moment are rending the heart of Europe and holding captive the sympathies of us all, there are few public events of a sufficiently stirring nature to claim from any of us more than a...

The Third Boat by Leila Mackinlay (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., I2s. 6d.) takes its title from a Manx superstition and this pleasant but somewhat fragmentary tale is rarely out of sight or sound of the sea. Moving from Morecambe Bay to the Isle...

Penlee's first motor lifeboat (1922 to 1931) wax a 45ft Watson, The Brothers. She still carried auxiliary sails. - View image in PDF

RNLI supporters using internet auction site eBay raised £55,597 for the charity last year. Among them was Martin Craig from St Ives, Cornwall, who raised £99 by selling some old furniture.

He was helping his...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: October 26 and 27 D class inflatable: October 10 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 19 (twice). 21. 22.

25, 27, 28 (twice) and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlanlic21: August 1.4.9,29.31...