LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 7.30 A.M. on the 8th December, during a dense fog, the watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the beach, one mile to the eastward of the watch-house. The crew of the Life-boat were at once assembled and proceeded in the...

COXSWAIN WATCHES TILL YACHT IS EM TROUBLE Appledore, Devon. During the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coxswain saw a small motor yacht with one man on board leave Appledore in a strong westerly breeze and an ebbing tide. He kept the...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fifteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,511. an increase of 10 on last year.

Of this...

THURSDAY, 4th June, 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN,  Esq., F.R.S., V.f., Chairman of the Institution , in the Chair. ' Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward....

CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.

Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats3 motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.

Landing...

Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...

1st May to 31st July, 1935.

Greater London.

Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...

On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...