LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A severe blow Late afternoon at Polzeath, Cornwall, on 28 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards spotted a young woman being helped out of the black and white flagged area. While surfing, the woman had taken a blow to the back of her head from a...

Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 11.15 p.m. on zoth January, 1966, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the Border Sailing Club rescue boat, with one man on board her, was adrift on the rocks at the west side of the bay, her...

Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 15th February, 1938. A report that the s.s.Helen, of Saltvik, Finland, had wirelessed that she was in difficulties had been received and the Lowestoft lifeboat went out. She...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...

— Several fishing boats were making for the harbour during a S.

wind, on the morning of the 18th May, and as a very heavy sea was breaking across the entrance, it was evident that the boats would encounter some amount of...

When your safety depends on an engine make sure it gets a Champion start! * Nowhere is a spark plug so important to you as in your marine engine. Lives can depend upon its unfailing efficiency. That's why it makes good sense to fit...

It will never be said of my children (the girls' any more than the boys), in case of a boat capsizing, " none of the party could swim ;" — the dreary and shameful announcement which we see in the newspaper reports of the...

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with...