LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 4.40 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard asked the coxswain for a boat to help with the rescue of a man who had fallen over a cliff at Flamborough Head.

There was a fresh north-westerly wind...

At 11.20 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the trawler St. Lucia of Lowestoft 105 miles north-east of the Tyne and that a helicopter would lift him off at 5...

Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had...

In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...

Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never need a lifeboat, but it is good... - View image in PDF

What led BBC Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander (pictured centre) to a conviction that she must support the RNLI?. - View image in PDF

DR JAMES HALL of Deal has made many trips by life-boat to ships in the Channel when a seaman has needed urgent attention. He has often gone out in heavy weather to perform operations in the most difficult conditions.

During...