LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain Thomas Rees, who died at the age of seventy-eight, was coxswain of the Angle life-boat for fifteen years, from 1906 until 1920, when he retired on account of old age. His most notable service was performed as a member of the crew in...

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...

Coxswain William Miller, of Eye- mouth, Berwickshire, who died on 13th February, at the age of sixty-eight, served as coxswain for twenty-six years. He was appointed coxswain in 1901, and retired in 1927, when he was awarded a certificate of...

The rescue of a 12-year-old girl off St Agnes, Cornwall, is celebrated. - View image in PDF

BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...

When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers

‘With the weather like it...

A big lump of sea rising over the bow of the motor barge Roino which ran aground off Margate on 14th April, 1967. - View image in PDF

Kiley's I) class inshore and allweather lifeboats were called to t he rescue of I 'iclima and Michael.

a 25ft llshiiii; essel aground on rocks at Chimney Hole some two miles of the station on 9... - View image in PDF