LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

People in America have been only less generous than our own people overseas.

One donor, in Texas, has already sent £300 this year, and a lady in California has sent £49 because "she had been thrilled indeed...

Dover, Kent.—18th July. A yacht was flying a distress signal, but she was taken in tow by a motor boat.—Rewards, £1 5s..

AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.

Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...

4th December. A barge was in distress, but was helped by a motor boat.—Rewards, £30 16s. 6d..

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 13th August. Two boys were adrift in a small boat, but a fishing boat picked them up.—Rewards, £9 13s..

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

THE YEAR 1974 began in an atmosphere of gloom and anxiety with industry limited to a three-day week and restrictions on lighting recalling wartime blackouts.

The first month of the year was also one in which there were...

Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...