LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Any more flares? One of the 42 entrants in the annual Outrageous Raft Race organised by Harrison and Sons sports and social club, the High Wycombe branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club and Marlow Canoe Club. The course was a half-mile stretch... - View image in PDF

Bridlington lifeboat station, established in 1806, is one of the oldest in the country - the all-weather lifeboat station can be seen in the centre of the detail photograph. Bridlington's carriage launched Mersey class, Marine Engineer,... - View image in PDF

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a...

ON MAY 8, 1975, at the RNLI annual meeting held in the Royal Festival Hall, London, a cheque for £91,363.72 was handed over by four young members of The Scout Association (see page 21) to cover funds raised for the lifeboat service...

HAYLE.—The brig Albert Wilhelm, of Barth, Germany, bound from the Isle of Man for Fowey, in ballast, bore up into St. Ives Bay, on the 17th October, during a strong gale from the N.N.W.

and a heavy sea, became embayed,...

Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...

Margate, Kent-At 2.21 a.m. on 7th June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted in the Edinburgh Channel six to seven miles off Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...

It’s Saturday 14 June, the day before Father’s Day. A gentle swell is building off Redcar, Cleveland. Two boats, each carrying a father and son, are out on fishing trips. The crew of one vessel will soon owe the other their...