LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In three years of war our life-boats have rescued 4775 lives. They have rescued more lives in these three years of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. In the four years of the last war they rescued 19 lives every week. In the...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 18th July the coastguard reported that a sailing barge about three miles S.W. by S. of Clacton pier had her topsail and foresail split. She was the Victa, of London, with a crew of two and a cargo of sand. A...

Swanage, Dorset.—At 6.5 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the St. Albans Head coastguard that a motor boat was two miles south- west by west of the Head. There was no sign of...

The British Railways IRB station, which was established in May, 1968, on the south side of the River Tay to provide protection for the teams of workmen on the bridge, receives training assistance from the Droughty Ferry...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 1.53 p.m. on 6th June, 1967, it was learned that a boat was in difficulties off the beach and the crew were firing flares. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irzoin, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings...

JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...

The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the New Year Honours - C.B.

Rear Admiral Geoffrey H. Carcw-Hunt, Admiral Commanding Reserves, is an ex-officio member of the Committee of Management of the Institution...

It looks like baby spew...', explained instructor Dave Eccles.

He was of course talking about the fluid which can occur in the lungs of a casualty when a lot of sea water is ingested. I was soon learn that this...