LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. — 28th July, 1939. An aeroplane which had on board the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, making for Belfast, was reported as missing. She had last been seen out at sea three miles S.E.S. of Walney Light. After searching...

THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....

An engraving by 'WWM', which first appeared in August 1871 showing a paddle steamer towing a lifeboat, went on to appear ten years later as the Ramsgate lifeboat at the wreck of the Indian Chief- an improbable scoop which was...

Putting the finishing touch, a thin red line, to one of the ' Year of the Lifeboat' commemorative mugs made by Wedgwood. On show at Earls Court, they are available from Wedgwood Shop, 249 Oxford Street, London, Wl, price £4.20... - View image in PDF

AUGUST 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat had saved four of the crew from a rubber dinghy, and the fifth man could not be found.- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..

Coxswain William G. Sanders, who died in 1944 at the age of 84.. - View image in PDF

Sennen Cove and St. Ives, Cornwall -At noon on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station that the owner of the exhibition galleon Hispaniola had expressed concern for the safety of...