LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER YORKSHIRE. At about 6 A.M. news was received  from the signal station that a British aeroplane had crashed off North Somercoats. A southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City...

Persona Time of rescued from Launching. shipwreck.

3.45 p.m. S.S. Lestris, of Bruges. Sheringham Life-boat rendered assistance.

2.0 a.m. Steam trawler Braconmoor, of Aberdeen. Longhope...

ONCE AGAIN another year has passed and 1982 has been the best year yet for Shoreline recruiting, due largely to the great support that we have had from our existing members. Our membership now stands at more than 92,000 and I am certain that...

AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...

The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...

WHEN RICHARD EVANS, the former Moelfre coxswain, concluded his reply to the toast of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at a dinner given by the Corporation of London in Guildhall on April 26 to mark 'The Year of the Lifeboat',...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...