LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fowey, Cornwall.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 13th of March, 1957, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a police constable had reported seeing red llares in the direction of Looe Island. At 6.23 the life-boat C.D.E.C., on...

Woolly Jumpers No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual...

THE 45-feet 6-inches Watson (Cabin) Motor Life-boat was the first type of Motor Life-boat in the Institution's fleet to be provided with a cabin, and the first of the type was built in 1923.

This Life-boat is a...

Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...

Direct Debits If you received your journal through the post in one of the new plastic envelopes, you will find a direct debit form printed on the sheet which carried your address label.

We hope that, if you are a Shoreline...

A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.

C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...

Lifesaving and volunteering were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican in London this May. Chairman Admiral the Lord Boyce, in his morning address, also praised the work of the...

Canoeists stranded THE WEATHER was cloudy, there was a fresh south-westerly breeze, force 5, and slight seas when Dover coastguard contacted the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station on the afternoon of Sunday June 9, 1985. Two...