LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DUCKHAMS go out to sea in a Force 8 gale Putting out to sea in a lifeboat on a dirty "winter's night in impossible conditions takes more than a high order of seamanship. It takes guts.

Men and boats are stretched...

The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...

MRS. EDITH MANBY, of Codsall, Staffordshire, completed, on New Year's Day 1936, a work which she began in April, 1935, of knitting woollen scarf-helmets for the life-boat crews round our coasts. Mrs. Manby had the help of 491 knitters...

OPENING OF THE BUILDING.

WE extract from the local papers some ac- count of the interesting ceremony of opening the North Shields Sailors' Home on the 21st October last by his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.,...

A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...

Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...

Crowds gather for the naming ceremony of Keep Fit Association. Photo Jetf Morris. - View image in PDF

THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...