LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...

The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...

AUGUST 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles N.E. of Winterton. The life-boat was launched at 1.54 P.M. and reached the position given at 3.10. There she saw and spoke to a...

Dfracombe, Devonshire. — At about 1.35 P.M. on the llth November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a passing steamer, going east, was flying a signal indicating aircraft in distress. A squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea...

VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...

Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.

—15th September, 1938. A steamer had reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found.—Rewards: Dungeness,.

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THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...