LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Over 70% of our planet’s surface is water but who is in charge of traffic on this vast highway and how has maritime law evolved?

This year sees the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the...

Feature Mastering the technique Although it’s not the urgent call of pagers that wake the crew members from their slumbers but the unwelcome shrill of alarm clocks, it’s no ordinary morning for Kieran and Paul. They are staying for a week at...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 18th of March, 1951, the weather got worse, and there was anxiety for the safety of the local keel boat Courage, at sea with a crew of five.

At 1.15 in the afternoon the...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1955 79,970 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1955 has been classified by...

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Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS

‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...

(2)—Life-boat going to rescue of yacht on the Pye sands, off the Naze, Walton, April, 1971.. - View image in PDF