LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 27th of January, 1950, it was reported that the local motor coble Resolution, with a crew of three, was overdue. The life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 2.40 in the afternoon in a calm sea with a light...

Jenny and Paul Jobling became the first couple to celebrate their wedding at the Lifeboat College on Saturday 17 October.

The college has been granted a licence to hold marriage and civil partnership ceremonies, and can...

As the recession continues, your support for the RNLI is more important than ever.

Six out of ten lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to legacy gifts. While we expect the number of gifts to increase over the coming...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Tallon of Clogher Head. He was appointed bowman in 1933, became second coxswain in 1938 and has been coxswain since 1946. During his service as a boat's officer Clogher Head life- boats...

THURSDAY, 5th July, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...

100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.

A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.

ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...

THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.

THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...

Backbone of the FishingTrade.

This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.

A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...