LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Some of the 16 rescued seamen shake the hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan as they go ashore from the Humber lifeboat Kenneth The/wall. They had been taken off the blazing tanker Phillips Oklahoma in what Coxswain Bevan described as 'the worst... - View image in PDF

ON March llth, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

(Major-General Seely), coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight,...

Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.

The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...

A stained glass window dedicated to the lifeboat service was unveiled at the Church of Scotland, Crown Court, London, on April 21: it shows a pulling lifeboat going to the rescue of a steam tug and records the Institution's 150th... - View image in PDF

AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...

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ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...

THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...