LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE. LONDON, was decor- ated and illuminated in celebration of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Patrons of the Institution.

Sixty life-boat stations were supplied with sets...

On the 18thNovember at 8 A.M., while a strong wind was blowing from the S., signals of distress were observed flying from a vessel which had grounded on the south side of Wexford Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen immediately put off in...

There was an added treat for three lads who won prizes in n lifeboat model-making competition. They went to Weston Park, near Newport, Salop, lo receive their awards from Lord Bradford, president of the Newport brunch of the RNLI. The boys... - View image in PDF

Newhaven, Sussex. At 5.30 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a sailing barge was drifting close inshore in Seaford Bay. The life- boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.37 in a fresh...

JUNE 18TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At 11.3 P.M. the harbour master reported through the coastguard that a fishing vessel was in distress two and a half miles south-west of Maryport, and at 11.32 P.M. the motor life-boat...

At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...

As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...

JANUARY 16TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

At 8.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress about four miles south of the life-boat station.

The motor life-boat Jane Holland...