LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As storms lashed our coasts last Christmas, a crew of sailors found themselves without engine or sail power – and drifting into the path of a 218m cruise liner …

When the Cowes lifeboat...

Deputy Secretary.

MAJOR A. D. BURNETT BROWN, M.C., has been appointed Deputy-Secretary to succeed Colonel Satterthwaite. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship and...

On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...

WHEN the motor mechanic of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat started up the engines one morning in December, to test them, several dozen small grey mullet were blown out of the tunnels in which the propellers are housed. The stunned...

Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF

Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...

RNLI Andy Huggelt: 2nd coxswain ana deputy mechanic. Eastbourne lifeboat.

He'll face 30ft waves, force 9 gales and sub-zero temperatures.

All you face is an application form.

Every...

ON page 379 appears the account of the rescue, on 7th September, by the motor life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, of a dinghy, with a man and woman on board her, which was being carried out to sea. Here is a description of the same service—as...