LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The following life-boat stations celebrated their centenaries this year: Wey- mouth, Dorset; St. David's, Pembrokeshire; Salcombe, South Devon; and Wells, Norfolk.

At Selsey, Sussex, on 10th June the 48-foot 6-inch...

Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to Brighton each year for the sun, sea and surf and some found themselves in the midst of an inspired event in the Summer of 2006: ‘Paddle round the Pier’ (pictured).. - View image in PDF

John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig (foreground) with the coxswain and crew of Weymouth lifeboat after they had drawn the winning tickets at Weymouth lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...

VERY ROUGH SEA At 6.45 a.m. on 29th November, 1965, three motor fishing vessels were reported to be still at sea in deteriorating weather.

The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 7.5, an hour before high...

Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...

Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...