LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above

Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...

ENGRAVED CRYSTAL GLASS LIFEBOAT TANKARDS Profiles of some of RNLI's offshore fleet, strikingly engraved on half or one pint Crystal Glass Tankards. Order individually or as sets, selecting the craft of your choice from the illustrations...

Little knits! Over the last two years Mrs Morley from Cowes has been knitting little lifeboatmen. - View image in PDF

Most are sold during Cowes Week and so far she has raised £80 for the lifeboats in this way.. - View image in PDF

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON DECEMBER 23RD. - BALLY-COTTON, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a message was received at the station that a vessel was in distress about five miles south of Power Head. She could be seen from Ballycotton,...

ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...

SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.

At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.

Walton and Frinton, Essex. — Just before midnight on the 21st of June, 1949, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the pilot cutter Bembridge that a steamer had struck the sunken wreck of the Fort Massac, about one and a half miles...

Plymouth.

ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...