LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitstable’s B class lifeboat Oxford Town & Gown helped save the 1901-built wooden sailing barge Marjorie, which was holed in a collision during a barge race on 9 August. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, Marjorie had already been...

On 17 September, the trawler Dorothy May ran out of fuel, having been using it at a faster rate than usual.

A further fault meant that her battery hadn’t charged and she lost electrical power, rendering her radio useless....

A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.

During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...

7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...

I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...

THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...

Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.

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Sir Alec Rose, who opened Newhaven branch fete in July, inspects one of the afternoon's exhibits, a model48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat made by Shoreline member Geoff Mellett. Although living in South London, Geoff is always willing to... - View image in PDF