LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 24th. August, the Ramsgate station bad to be closed. Ramsgate was bombed from the air that day, and the whole life-boat crew of nine took shelter in a cellar near the harbour. A bomb burst just outside, and six of the nine were wounded....

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Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby...

A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.

This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...

Dungeness lifeboat Crew Member Garry Clark is to receive the RNLI's Silver Medal for his bravery and determination during the rescue of seven people from the yacht Liquid Vortex on 3 January this year.

In a long and...

THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...