LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HM The Queen Mother's 100th birthday paradethought it was a wonderful day I was delighted to be involved ' Peter Woolhouse, Volunteer Fundraiser Lifeboatmen and women from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland helped to make...

In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment

Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...

Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start Point. Her exact position...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...

Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.

Such reliability does...