LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...

The life-boat service has never, in its whole history, had so busy and so dangerous a time as since the outbreak of war.

The life-boat service has never been more generously supported by the people of Great Britain than...

Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two...

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At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF

DOCTOR PUT ABOARD MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Uskport, on passage from Newport, Monmouthshire, to Tunis was approaching...

Where is everybody? This lonely collector was one of the many who collected in Chichester on Saturday 22 July. Even though the collector was suitably dressed in shorts for the very hot weather, most of the public appeared to be at the beach!... - View image in PDF

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...