LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aerial picture of Spurn Head lifeboat station taken at 9.30 a.m. on May 25, 1951. The old and new lighthouses are visible together with an assortment of World War I and II military installations.

Just below the lighthouses... - View image in PDF

THE Council of the SOCIETY OF ARTS appointed a Committee in March, 1883, with the full concurrence of the Marine Department of the BOARD OP TRADE, to inquire into and consider the question of collision at sea, the scope of the in- quiry...

With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard

The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...

When fun-loving Judith Lunan suddenly passed away, it was a huge shock to her family. Then they discovered her favourite charity

‘I know Mum would be so pleased that we are doing something positive in her name,’ says Sarah...

Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...

Workington, Cumberland.—At 9.55 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1952, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that the No. 1 pilot boat, of Workington, with two men on board, had broken down off Workington, and at ten o'clock...

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THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, took part for the first time in naming ceremonies of life-boats when she Avent on March 8th to Bridlington and on March 10th to Tynemouth and named their new life-boats, the Tittle Morrison,...