LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Brigadier J. W. H. Gow, CBE DL, who was involved with the RNLI in Scotland for many years. Brigadier Gow was chairman of Glasgow branch from 1937 to 1973, from 1953 to 1985 he served on the committee of management, andbetween the years 1950...

Bare knuckle fight When Adrian, Duncan and Craig decided to enter a stretch of notoriously treacherous water, they knew they were risking their own lives It was Sam on Sunday 16 October 2005 when the Coastguard called Bridlington lifeboat...

OLD RESCUE LAUNCH RESCUED Torbay, Devon.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1947, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Torquay police that a resident had seen a small vessel of a naval...

Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...

SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...

MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...

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Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...