LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 285 Life-boat Stations...

August, 1987 Jack Cole, mechanic at Buckie lifeboat station. Mr Cole joined the crew as mechanic in 1943 until his retirement in 1974, being awarded the BEM in 1974..

The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....

YOUNG PAIR RESCUE BOYS AT ABOUT 5.30 p.m. on 29th May, 1972, three young children were playing on the outer pier of North Sunderland harbour. The wind was westerly force 4-5 with a long heavy swell coming in from a north-easterly direction....

To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.

To...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PLYMOUTH JANUARY 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At eight minutes past three in the morning a message came from the King’s Harbour Master that distress flares had been seen in Jennycliffe Bay, and at 3.38 the motor lifeboat...

The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...

The fishing-boats also went to their fishing-grounds at 2 A.M. on the 28th March. At 5.30 the wind commenced to blow strongly, and at 7 o'clock it had increased to a gale from the E.S.E., and the sea .was very rough. Nine of the boats...