LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'I DON'T WANT TO DIE’
Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...
Category: Articles
The Rother Class James Cable Makes Her Final Pass Along the Beach at Aldeburgh on the Day Her Mersey Class Successor Arrived
The Rother class James Cable makes her final pass along the beach at Aldeburgh on the day her Mersey class successor arrived. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Angling Boat Lady Jane
Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Cliff Rescue Training for One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards
Cliff Rescue Training For One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent has accepted the invitation of the Committee of Management to become the Institution's President in succession to the late Duke of Kent..
Category: Articles
The Sailing Barge Monarch
OCTOBER 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
About four in the afternoon the coastguard reported that H.M.S. Albatross was towing the sailing barge Monarch and had asked that the life-boat should go out, take over, and tow her into...
The Danish Motor Ketch Viking
OCTOBER 14TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on Spittal Point. The northerly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat J. and W. was launched...
The Old Coxswain
THERE he stands, somewhat apart from the rest, his eyes straining in the haze to watch her disappearing form. The Life-boat has been launched, and— amazing, incredible, as it yet seems to his mind—launched without him 1 For half a century he...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Gratitude
NOVEMBER 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 10.45 in the morning the life-boat crew were assembled, as anxiety was felt for the motor fishing coble Gratitude, which was at sea. A north-east gale was blowing, with heavy broken water. The...