LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCT. 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At, 12.28 P.M a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S. Wanderer expected to arrive in Yarmouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a...

A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...

FEBRUARY 8TH. - NEWHAVEN,SUSSEX. Patrol vessels had been reported missing, but nothing was found and, later, all were accounted for. - Rewards, £10.

Whitby, Yorkshire.—About half past three on the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, several Scottish fish- ing boats working from Whitby were at sea. A strong north-easterly wind was causing a very heavy sea, making the approach to...

Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

WE have on several occasions called attention, in the columns of the Life-Soot Journal, to the great necessity that existed for additional harbours of refuge being constructed on some points of the coasts.

Many of our...

Salcombe's 47ft Watson The Baltic Exchange, her emergency bag inflated, bound for Brixham after being capsi:ed and righting in a violent storm on Ma 10. The photograph was taken by the crew of Torbay lifeboat which was escorting her to... - View image in PDF