LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DURING the coming holiday months many people will find themselves con- fronted at seaside resorts and elsewhere with flag sellers for the Royal National Life-boat Institution. When putting a coin into a box they may well ask them- selves:...

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer

Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...

Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St.

Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 14th November the Liverpool steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of gravel, anchored about three miles...

AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...

(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.

Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...

Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...