LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...

Childhood friends John Crabb and Verity Pope, both aged 17, have recently joined the crew at Looe inshore lifeboat station, in Cornwall.

They are both continuing family traditions: John's elder brother Ben is a crew... - View image in PDF

CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat which has done duty at Cress- well since 1889 has been replaced by a new boat of the self-righting Ruble type, 34 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, fitted with one water-ballast tank and rowing 10 oars double...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the trawler Irma Alice,...

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Own an Osborne 'KINGS WIFT 26' KING SIZE 4 BERTH CRUISER GRP in excess of Lloyds requirements Traditional yacht superstructure and deck Length 26 ft. Beam 9 ft. 10 in. Draft 2 ft.

Complete craft ready for sea or we...

Own an Osborne 'KINGS WIFT 26' KING SIZE 4 BERTH CRUISER GRP in excess of Lloyds requirements Traditional yacht superstructure and deck Length 26 ft. Beam 9 ft. 10 in. Draft 2 ft.

Complete craft ready for sea from...

IN pointing out at the annual meeting in London on 8th April, 1970, that the operational record of the life-boat and inshore rescue boat crews had been a triumphant one, the Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir...