LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...

PAINTING LIFE-BOATS.

General Rules.

1. IT will be desirable, that in or about the month of May in each year, or as soon as fine summer weather shall have fairly set in, and the exercise for the current...

WE have, for some years past, noted from time to time the progress of the Life-boat Organizations in other coun- tries which have established a Service of this character, whether under the State or, as in our case, on a voluntary basis. In...

One hundred gallons of petrol, donated by BP Oils Ltd, was the prize in a draw organised by Pangbourne branch which raised £1,800 for the RNLI. The lucky ticket was drawn at the Swan Hotel by England Test cricketer Denis Compton. With... - View image in PDF

Warrant Officer T. J. Hudson MBE is shown presenting a cheque for £200 to the President of Plymouth lifeboat station, Vice Admiral Sir Robert Gerken.

The money was raised by WO Hudson's friends and mess mates who... - View image in PDF

JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...

Second Coxswain Martyn Hagan was just sitting down to his tea on 26 June when a call came through from Humber Coastguard. ‘We have a little job for you,’ the Coastguard said. The ‘little’ job involved rescuing the 18m Hartlepool-registered...

At 7.30 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1957, the honorary secretary of the New Brighton station, Captain G. Ayre, learnt from the Formby coastguard that the /. B. Kee, a coaster of 211 tons, of Castletown, Tsle of Man, was in...