LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...

In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.

An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...

WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it...

At 11 A.M. on the 25th February, during a strong N.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Renown, of Girvan, was seen returning from the fishing-grounds. As the sea was heavy and the bar was very bad, it was thought advisable to launch the Life- boat...

On the 30th June information was received that a yacht appeared to be ashore near the Cork Sand. She was kept under observation by the coastguard, and it was decided to send the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. to her. She left at 7.25 P.M., and...

Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...

Early on the morning of the 13th Jan. intelligence was received that a vessel was shewing signals of distress off this place. On the Life-boat Alfred and'Ernest being taken to the spot it was found that the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S.,...

No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, but in The Lifeboat for March, 1929, we published a calculation made by an Assurance Company which showed the minimum value, that is to say, the cost of providing the dependents of a man...