LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1954, two fishermen who had just come in from sea told the life-boat coxswain that a motor-boat had a broken rudder in Pegwell Bay. At 6.35, in a flooding tide, the life-boat...

Mrs Margaret (Peg) Braithwaite MBE, president of the Barrow ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Braithwaite has been a member of the guild since 1969 and became president in 1994. She was awarded an MBE in 1984..

A stormy sea can very quickly become a cruel sea to a vessel in distress.

Crashing waves prevent rescue vessels getting alongside. And poor visibility can make yards seem like miles.

With the Pains-Wessex...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.30 on the morning of the 28th of April, 1958, the coxswain was working at the boathouse when he heard an explosion, which appeared to come from the Dutch coaster Pres. Roosevelt anchored one mile...

Margate, Kent - At 8.33 a.m. on 27th April, 1969, the coastguard stated that a report had been received from the m.v. Australia Star that a yacht was flying distress signals near the Mid Shingles buoy. The life-boat crew were requested to...

For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...

TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields life-boat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...

off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...