LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon was secured alongside the East Goodwin lightvessel, as she had run short of petrol....

‘You bet!’ That’s what a group of local lads said when challenged to undertake a gruelling bike ride from Arbroath to Dobbies at Ethiebeaton Park – and back – late last summer. Their combined pedal-power raised a whopping £563, which...

Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two miles north north...

Aith, Shetland December 10.

Amble, Northumberland December 9, 19 and January 28.

Anstruther, Fife December 13.

Arbroath, Angus December 22.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow December...

Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.

Of the life-boat stations detailed in...

SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...

At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.

When she was...

Bookw of the I Bookshop Offer Price £4.95 Price after 1st July £ 6.95 Every copy sold makes a contribution to the RNLI! This is the exciting story of the RNLI: the men, the boats, the rescues, and has been chosen by a panel of...