LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE work of the Life-boat Service does not grow less. It is actually increasing.

In spite of all that is being done, by new inventions, to make travel by sea safer as well as more comfortable, 146 more calls were made for...

TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...

PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. — The lugger Maria Jane, of Peel, left the harbour at about 4 p.m., on the 26th March, for mackerel fishing off the coast of Ireland.

A strong breeze was then blowing from N.N.W. and the sea was rough....

IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — Two local fishing boats put to sea at 3 A.M. on the 7th August. At 9 A.M. the sea became rough, a fog settled, and a strong N.

breeze sprang up. The new motor lifeboat Foresters Centenary was launched...

Dover, Kent. At 6.11 on the morn- ing of the 30th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster was aground in St. Margaret's Bay. The honorary secretary asked for further information, and at seven o'...

Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...

Able Seaman Kevin Rafferty was able to present Andrew Young, regional organiser for the south west, with a cheque for £1,195 on his return from six months in the Atlantic with the ocean survey ship HMS Herald. Kevin was sponsored not to... - View image in PDF