LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

After an action-packed summer on the water, autumn finds us in a reflective mood

As we sent Lifeboat to print, the sun had been baking the UK and Ireland for weeks. And we weren’t complaining! But warm weather draws crowds...

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...

IN the year 1852 this Institution adopted a new description of life-boat: many of the boats which it at that time possessed were worn out, and the result of the-competition for a prize offered in the previous year by His Grace the Duke of...

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PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sis- ters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and pro- ceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...

THURSDAY, 9th May, 1889.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., Y.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Moore Horn, of Exmouth, Devon. He was shore-signalman from 1908 until 1919. From 1920 to 1928 he served as second coxswain and since 1928 he has been coxswain. On 15th January, 1938, he won the...

H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...