LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating near the West Pan Sand buoy and a request was made for the life-boat to recover it....

Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...

Three days earlier, on June 8, (below) Her Royal Highness had been shown the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, donated by the Institute of London Underwriters on their centenary, at the Guildhall, London (see report on page 38 of the... - View image in PDF

Seven lifeboatmen from Newhaven, Sheerness and Portsmouth, attended the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 17. Coxswain/ Mechanic Leonard Patten of Newhaven lifeboat, was the RNLI colour bearer,... - View image in PDF

. . . 1975: (left) end of the afternoon, tea in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. From Workington, bronze medallist Coxswain Albert Brown and his wife Margaret with Captain David Thomas (I.), station honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....

IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...

IT is pleasant to be able to publish the following letter from a little girl, who has evidently been trained, at her mother's knee, to admire the spirit of self-sacrifice which animates those who render personal service to humanity,...