LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A battle for survival
Two fathers stranded at sea were about to give up hope of seeing their children again after a jetskiing trip went horribly wrong ...
Battered by huge waves after their watercraft sank and now...
Category: Articles
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock, honorary secretary of the Mumbles lifeboat station, watched by Cosxwain Derek Scott, B.EM.
by courtesy of...
Category: Correspondence
Top: The Indomitable Keith (centre) And His Rescuers Are Safe At Last
Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sprays of Flowers from Walmer Vice-Chairman Peter Broady (/) and Honorary Secretary Norman Cavell for Schermuly and Pains- Wessex Marchers (I to R) Barbara Ski
Sprays of flowers from Walmer vice-chairman, Peter Broady (/.), and honorary secretary, Norman Cavell, for Schermuly and Pains- Wessex marchers (I. to r.) Barbara Skinner, Petra Mercer, Sue Roberts, Debbie Groom and Evelyn Luff.
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Category: Photographs
His Last Message.
To each of the three annual meetings of the Institution since the outbreak of war The Duke of Kent sent a message of congratulation. The last of these messages was read by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, when he...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of...
Category: Services
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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
T. Deryon
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY.—On the 21st August, in a strong wind from the S.W. and a rough sea, the yacht T. Deryon,of Carmarthen, was observed to be dismasted and in dangerous proximity to the Langharne Sands. Tie Life-boat City of...
La Francoise
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries