LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never need a lifeboat, but it is good... - View image in PDF

The recent advertising campaign '£5 buys him a pair of boots' has highlighted the costs of kitting out a lifeboatman.

The protective clothing, boots, bump cap, lifejacket and lifeline cost £167. It's...

SKIN DIVERS SAVED RED flares fired from a skin divers' boat about two miles off Selsey Bill on 28th March led to the Selsey life-boat being launched. A helicopter \vas also called.

The life-boat Charles Henry was...

JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.

- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...

AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.

Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...

* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 9.5 a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard at Deal to inquire whether any distress calls or advice from lightvessels had been received regarding a German ship aground on the Goodwins...

THE Institution now has two ghost cabinets, to show the changes in the equipment of the Life-boat Service.

They are on the principle of the old "Peppers Ghost," and are worked by a penny in the slot. In each...