LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EIGHT members of the Dover life-boat crew, Coxswain T. Walker, Second Coxswain W. Cockings, Mechanic II.

Pegg, Second Mechanic A. Liddon and Life-boatmen D. Briggs. S. Liddon, J.

Sharp and A. Whiting, were...

THE following report, sent in by the honorary secretary of an inshore rescue boat station, is just another example of failing to face up to the fact that the sea is unpredictable.

Apparently two men went out in a homemade...

TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.

There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...

A FFTNTTT V WITH AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.

Not only will...

HUMPBACK WHALE FREED
DART/SALCOMBE | 22 MARCH
RNLI crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out – this time it was an 8m humpback whale trapped
 n fishing gear. The lifeboats helped...

Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...

NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.

NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...

DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...