LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Swanage, Dorset. At 3.9 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1962, the coastguard at St. Aldhelm's Head informed the assistant honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the rocks under the...

Tuesday, 6 September started off as a normal day in the office at Poole, but by mid morning this had all changed after a call from the director of the RNLI.

I was to liaise with the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), he said...

PEOPLE WHO LOOK AHEAD USE PURPOSE DESIGNED BINOCULARS...

the 'Skipper' by Swift 7x50 7x50 This is the basic naval binocular with the centre focus added for your convenience. It's a big rugged workhorse of a...

JULY 4TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A steamer had been bombed and sunk, four of her crew being killed, but the seven survivors, three badly wounded, were picked up by a patrol boat. - Rewards, £5 18s..

Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...

THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...

The RNLI/Kodak Photography Competition prompted an overwhelming response. After much deliberation the judges chose this outstanding photograph by Hilary Watkins, a senior NHS Manager, as the overall winner.

Hilary's...

Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...