LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF

When hearing-impared surfer Isabella Denyer went out alone at Polzeath Beach, she soon became overpowered by waves. Here's what happened, in her own words

On a family holiday in Polzeath,...

In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...

On board are the Mayor, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Miss Alice Marshall (Hon. Secretary) and the Rev. Mansell Merry (Hon. Treasurer).. - View image in PDF

Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler with an injured man on board was making for the Humber and that the services of a doctor were needed...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.26 p.m. on I9th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Zeemansblik was aground two miles west by north of St. Catherine's Point. The life-boat The...

XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.

L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.

THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...

AT the close of the fiscal year (30th June) 1899 the establishment of the Life-Saving Service of the United States embraced 265 stations. Of this number 193 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 56 on the coasts of the Great Lakes,...