LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DEC. 4TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

An explosion had been seen five miles away, but the life-boat found no survivors, although she picked up a quantity of wreckage which she landed at the Custom House. - Rewards, £20...

Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...

AUGUST 2 6TH. - MARGATE, KENT Intense machine-gun fire had been heard, an aeroplane on fire was seen falling into the sea, and an airman, and then three more airmen, were seen coming down by parachute, but they were picked up by other boats....

Length 17m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft) Displacement 37.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction FRC. - View image in PDF

NEAR ROSSALL At 11.22 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a few hundred yards off the beach at Rossall. The life-boat crew, already standing by in the boathouse...

Gabvay Bay. At 4.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1960, the local medical officer asked for the life- boat to take a patient, who was in need of immediate hospital treatment, to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other boat was...

Passage home: the 47ft Tyne class City of London, with the 33ft Brede class Merchant Navy astern, on their way back from Gothenburg. The photograph was taken by Maldwin Drummond, a vice-president of the Institution and chairman of the Boat... - View image in PDF

Two life-boatmen of the Kirkcudbright crew serving with the navy, have been awarded the British Empire Medal. George Parkhill, son of the coxswain, serving as officer steward on one of H.M. trawlers, won it for rescuing wounded men from a...