LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

Mudeford - South Division Mudeford's lifeboat history dates back to 1935 when a storm broached Mudeford Sandbank leaving the sheltered beaches exposed to the open...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 2 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news wasreceived that the local sailing club's rescue boats might not be able to cope if the sudden squall which had capsized 21 dinghies in the harbour got any worse.

NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...

Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.

•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 23rd of November, 1955, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hcpworth had been launched to the help of fish- ing boats in bad weather and had escorted in several small boats. She waited near the...

JAVELIN AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO SEA Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.23 on the morning of the 18th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Javelin aircraft with a crew of two had crashed into the sea seven to twelve...

Sailing Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" It seemed scarcely possible that the life-boat could reach the ketch before she broke up....

A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...