LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On an apparently ordinary day at the beach last Summer, a near tragedy was unfolding

It was just before midday on 30 August 2011 and a lone kayaker was enjoying the water off Sandsend,...

THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...

Thursday, Sept. 6, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and the Wreck and Reward...

THIRTY-EIGHT life-boatmen, from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh stations were invited to attend the annual meeting in London, on 26th April, to receive medals and vellums awarded to them for gallantry during the previous year. This is the...

One of the objects of selling life-boat souvenirs is to remind people of the service and to draw attention to its work. Recently Mr. Barrie T. Kendall, C. Eng., M.R.I.N.A., Mem. S.N.A.M.E., M.N.E.C. Inst., A.M.I.Mar E., of Waltonon- Thames,...

Active Membership The encouraging start to our 21 st year has continued with 10,315 new adult members recruited in the first five months of 1989, whilst the response to our appeal in the Spring journal for junior membership has been...

PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....

Nearly saved . . . by a motor lifeboat I was interested in the feature 'Saved by a motor lifeboat', which appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Lifeboat.

There is an interesting story pertaining to this film - I...