LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Barge British Oak On Ramsgate Sands. - View image in PDF

The Prototype Brede On Early Evaluation Trials. - View image in PDF

Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was launched into the sweltering heat of 26 June to help six people in the water. Three children were being swept out to sea on bodyboards; their mother and grandfather tried to swim out to...

Coxswain John A. Fox, of the Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant. A member of the local crew since 1946, he was Second Coxswain from November, 1963, to April last year when he was promoted. Since 1946 Shoreham... - View image in PDF

The Life- \ boat Civil Service, on the Wexford No. 2 sta- tion, did good service on the 13th May, by saving the crew of 2 men from the yacht Little Dorrit, of Weymouth, which, during a strong gale from the N.N.E., became a total wreck on the...

We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...

While attending the South of England show at Ardingly in June, HRH The Duchess of York visited the RNLI stand, where she was introduced to Ken Everard, then coxswain of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat.

The Duchess also spoke to... - View image in PDF

MABLETHORPE.—The barge Paragon, of Milton, Faversham, was observed in distress during a fresh E. breeze, squally weather and a moderate sea on the 13th August. She was trying to beat off the lee shore off Trusthorpe pier, but being unable to...