LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...

APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the...

Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole

Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...

King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...

Second Coxswain William Sheader, Coxswain Tom Mainprize and Bowman Thomas Rowley (see page 10). - View image in PDF

Pounding on bank GREAT YARMOUTH Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Lowestoft lifeboat station at 0215 on Thursday April 16, 1981, that the Panamanian coaster Avenir was aground l'/2 miles north east of Lowestoft and bouncing...

THE naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat at Sunderland took place on 13th June. The boat is of the 46 feet Watson cabin type, described on page 192. She has cost £8,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. I....

Twenty years after...

• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...