LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

V.—MARGATE.

The Quiver, No. I.

This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.

A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...

Mrs Jill Cater and Mrs Sylvia Hillier with Brighton's new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Graham Hillier and Tony Cater at the naming ceremony on 29 September. (Photo courtesy Evening Argus, Brighton). - View image in PDF

BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.

From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...

26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...

FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...

Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...

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DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.

PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...