LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When holidaymakers got trapped between cliffs and 2m waves with no way of calling the Coastguard, could anyone help them escape?

‘This was another idyllic sunny day so we headed out for a...

THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.

The Chairman observed that it had been well...

BY the death on 9th June last, in his 68th year, of Sir William Corry, Bt., one of the Directors of the Cunard Line and the Dominion and Commonwealth Line, the Institution lost a friend who for many years had given it the help and advice of...

A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...

Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...

New hand at the helm Andrew Freemantle, MBE has been appointed the new Director of the RNLI. He will succeed Lieutenant Commander Brian Miles, CBE, who retires at the end of the year after 34 years with the lifeboat...

more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...

• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.

The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...