LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When was the last time you visited a museum or a historic site? The best places are those that bring history to life, for children and adults. If the museum inspires you, not only will you have a great day out. you will leave knowing far...

ROCKETS FIRED Hastings, Sussex. At 2.47 a.m. on nth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small craft had fired red rockets from a position three miles south-east of the coastguard station.

At 3.4,...

Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...

WE ARE DELIGHTED to be able to publish below a photograph of the lifeboatmen of Blyth, the port at which the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed; and on page 81 is reported a fine service in which both Shoreline and...

Exmouth, Devon.—At 9.30 on the night of the 28th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three red flares had been seen eight to ten miles south of Lyme Regis, and that an R.A.F. rescue launch was putting out to search. At 9.48...

Swanage, Dorset. At 9.22 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man from the yacht Little Zakery of Hamble, which was ashore on a reef near Old Harry Rocks, had been landed by...

THIS benevolent and ingenious gentleman has been gathered to his fathers, full of years and honours, his decease having occurred on the 18th November last, at his residence Southdown, near Great Yarmouth.

His well-known...

IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...