LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Poppy the Springer Spaniel had a lucky escape on Valentine’s Day after chasing a seagull and falling 90m down a cliff into the sea.

Amazingly, she survived and managed to swim back to huddle at the cliff base. Newhaven’s...

ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...

To DAVID ANDERSON, on his retirement, after serving 8J years as Bowman and 23 years as Coxswain at Montrose, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To THOMAS LEADBETTER, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Bowman...

The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight life-boat, with Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., honorary secretary, and (below) the Duke of Kent with the Bembridge crew of the 48-foot 6... - View image in PDF

Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men savedThe joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal and also the Thanks of the Institution...

THE year 1921 was one of phenomenally fine weather. A very mild winter was followed by a summer of drought and an autumn almost without gales. In fact, there was no really severe weather until Christmas. The year then went out in storms, and...

XXV.-ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLES.

The Henry Dundas, 37 feet long, 9 feet beam, 10 oars.

THIS Life-boat was stationed at St. Mary's, the capital of the Scilly Isles, in 1874. Previous to that time it...

ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.

of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...