LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 3.7 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on Holm of Cruester, Lerwick Harbour, and signalling by siren. She was asking for a pilot and the lifeboat.

The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.

Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...

Three of the cobles were overtaken by the E.S.E. gale which suddenly-sprung up on the 22nd January, and as it was evident, owing to the heavy sea running, that their return to harbour would be very dangerous, the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness.

He was appointed coxswain in October 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats have been launched on service 47 times and have rescued 22...

GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BUILT RNLI LIFE-BOATS SINCE 1931 AND ARE NOW BUILDING MORE AT EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT (Tel: 098-382-2561).

Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.

APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...

‘I hope I remember how to walk,’ says the saddlesore Steve McAllister after cycling a good chunk of his 8,000-mile route. At the time of writing, Steve had just cycled through what he describes as ‘the unbelievably beautiful beaches and...

RNLI volunteer David Gillingwater is the artist behind Oilskins: A Portrait of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Crew. At the time of writing Lifeboat, the exhibition was just getting under way in the Suffolk town’s Garage...