LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

J. H. MINET LIFE & PENSIONS LTD is proud of its close association with the R.N.L.I, as advisers to its employees on all aspects of life assurance, investment and house purchase.

As part of MINET HOLDINGS, one of the...

'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.

Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF

Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a Rill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...

Thank you to everyone who organised and supported SOS events around the UK and RoI on 30 January. SOS day is the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, and this year’s event was well supported in schools, companies and clubs, and RNLI fundraising...

IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...

DECEMBER 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 4.55 in the afternoon the Portland Bill coastguard telephoned that a red distress signal had been seen a mile north of the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong southsouth- west wind was...

Soon after dark on the 28th December, signal lights and rockets were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands, by the beachmen at Caister, on the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat was at once launched, and, proceeding to the sands,...

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at Newbiggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...