LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...

On the morning of the 23rd September a heavy gale sprang up, accompanied by a very rough sea. About 52 of the herring-boats were then out at sea, but several of these landed. Others, however, held on by their nets, hoping that the gale would...

Newhaven H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Newhaven life-boat Kathleen Mary on the 13th of July, 1959. The life-boat had been presented to the Institution by a lady who wished to remain...

Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.

Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...

Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At about 9.30 P.M. on the 31st October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a yacht sailing past the harbour mouth had burnt red flares. A fresh S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...

BembridgB, Isle of Wight—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 25th of May, 195.7, 'the Foreland- coastguard tele- phoned that ; the > yacht Janis, of Bosham, was making little headway a mile and a half south-west of Ventnor pier but was...

St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.

Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...