LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Samuel Cunningham of Portrush.

He was appointed coxswain in July 1946, having been second coxswain since January 1937 apart from a period of six years when he was away on war service...

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At 2.30 A.M. on the 22nd November the Coastguard reported that a steamer had grounded on the beach and was making signals of distress. The Coxswain, John Swan, therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell. On...

Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...

JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 early on the morning of the 15th of June, 1953, during fog, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had gone ashore off North Cheek, Robin Hood's Bay.

The No. 1 life-boat Man/ Ann Hep-...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...

Inset- The Red Arrows take time out of their busy schedule to put on a stunning display.. - View image in PDF