LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To those who live near or visit the coast, an RNLI lifeboat station is a familiar and reassuring sight. But many are still surprised to learn that there are RNLI crews launching to the rescue in London too For more than three years now, the...

At 9.5 P.M. on 22nd February, the Blakeney Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a flare had been seen between Blakeney and Wells.

The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Caroline was launched at 9.45 P.M. in a moderate...

COCKLE-GATHERERS IN PERIL Beaumaris, Anglesey.—Early in the morning of the 22nd of September, 1947, two men put out in a rowing boat to gather cockles, but a strong south- west wind blew up and at one o'clock in the afternoon the men...

On the afternoon of the 25th January the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that Pilot Vessel No. 2 was in distress off the Bar Lightship. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy squalls of sleet and rain. The New...

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...

Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—During the afternoon of the 12th February, 1938, the barge Chieftain, of London, bound with a cargo of wheat for Ipswich, was overtaken by bad weather when off Walton-on-the-Naze. She had two men and a woman on...

Keith Deller, former world darts champion, assisted the Harwich lifeboat crew at the Hanover public house in counting the contents of a bottle amounting to a remarkable £1,360. The money had been raised by the landlord, Basil MacNess,... - View image in PDF