LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...

THE first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service.

Its crews have gone out to the rescue more often, and they have...

WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...

THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...

IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....

IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.

Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...

When Islay lifeboat crew launched to a yachtsman in treacherous seas and force 11 winds, they couldn’t have known that their courage would result in a life saved that night – or a Medal for Gallantry

‘ My adrenaline...

PAYMENTS.

LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats, including payments on account for boats for the following stations:— Anstruther, Barry Dock, Cromer, Dover, Dun Laoghaire, Gorleston, Ilfracombe, Kirkcudbright, Newbiggin, North...