LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...

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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...

OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on...

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Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF

WORLDWIDE, AN ESTIMATED 372,000 PEOPLE DROWN EVERY YEAR

In too many countries, drowning is the leading killer of children. It affects the poorest in our world first and worst: people caught in the rhythms of everyday life...

ONE of the most remarkable family records in the history of the Life-boat Service is that of the Aindows of Formby, in Lancashire, who for nearly 60 years provided the greater part of the Crew of the Life-boat at Formby, a very isolated...