LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 30TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. A British aeroplane was reported at 9.15 PM. to have fallen into the sea off Hunstanton, but though the life-boat cruised for 50 miles, she saw nothing.

About midnight, however,...

NOV. 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.47 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the sailing barge Lady Dorothy, of Ipswich, had stranded on the Buxey Sands, a quarter of a mile from the Spitway. A fresh S.W. breeze was...

A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...

Re-member 1989 The 'Re-member 1989' scheme to fund a new Mersey class lifeboat has got off to a slightly disappointing start, although it is still early days for the appeal.

Although the number of new members coming...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 523 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...

Feature: Especially for you 2 From the Thames to the Clyde - meeting local needs Feature: Lifeboat Lottery 6 Win a Caribbean cruise and help raise millions for the RNLI Lifeboats in action 8 Including a trio of Bronze Medals for St...

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX On the 23rd November, 1943, the Newhaven motor life-boat, after having been severely damaged in collision with H.M. Trawler Avanturine, and having lost a man overboard, escorted the trawler to...

The golden sands of The Gambia wasn’t a place where proud RNLI supporter Robert Painter expected to find lifeguards flying our flag …

'My wife and I have recently returned from The Gambia...