LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.

The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...

Broken steering gear THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Whitstable lifeboat station was told by Thames Coastguard at 1930 on Sunday April 19, 1981, that the catamaran Rumpleteazer had broken her steering gear and needed help; she was two...

For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...

IN The Lifeboat for November, 1925, we published an article on the Life- boat Service of Belgium. At that time there were on the thirty-five miles of the Belgian coast ten Life-saving Posts, each provided with a Pulling Life-boat and Rocket...

MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2...

Race to the Pole
by James Cracknell
and Ben Fogle

Review by Charlie Cash

After conquering the perils of the Atlantic Ocean in an open boat, most people would wallow in the...

FISHERMEN'S GUERNSEYS from the Channel Islands. in traditional navy and a large range of colours for you and your children.

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SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...