LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....

APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...

by Colin Watson Clogher Head's Mersey class lifeboat Doris Bleasdale punches through a steep sea in nasty conditions on her home patch.

Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1995, and news... - View image in PDF

Before you buy or renew your Private Medical Insurance...read this With Exeter Friendly Society, your premiums do not increase simply because you get older. The age you join is the age you stay*.

This alone could save you...

by Portsmouth Publishing and Printing Calshot's Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future holds station alongside the yacht Software Mistress in the Solent while the lifeboat crew prepare to take off an injured crew member.

The next generation of E class lifeboat can now be seen on the Thames. Hurley Burly is the first of three new E class lifeboats to be shared by Tower and Chiswick Lifeboat Stations. Two more are due to join our fleet in...

Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.

THE famous explorer, Captain Cook, was born near Stockton-on-Tees, in Yorkshire, on 27th October, 1728, and his bicentenary was celebrated this year.

His mother was a member of an old Redcar family, while his sister married...