LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.

The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...

DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.

PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...

Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...

On the left is a line-throwing gun, mounted on a [carnage. The man next to it is carrying a spare line and projectile. On the right is a cliff ladder.. - View image in PDF

IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.

Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...

Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...

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SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...