LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...

How one woman’s generosity and a volunteer crew’s commitment made a 12-hour rescue possible

The lifeboat crew from the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides worked through the night aboard the...

Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 19th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a speedboat had capsized opposite Deal coastguard station about half a mile off shore. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...

ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...

Brighton, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 8th July, 1965, the life-guard for the east section of the beach told the beach superintendent's office that a boy on a rubber mattress was drifting seawards off Black Rock swimming pool and signalling...

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS from many thousands of people, all, as it were, like threads being twisted together to form one rope of great strength, form the basis of Shoreline support for the lifeboat service. Year by year the sum of these...

At 11.30 A.M. on the 2nd December the S.S.E.

gale increased rapidly until it was blowing a strong gale, and as some of the fishing-boats belonging to Stone- haven were at sea, the Life-boat Alex- ander Slack was launched to...

BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.

He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...