LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

Harwell Apprentice Training School raised £355 for the lifeboats by winning the 24-hour pedal race at Bristol last February; the team finished first in afield of 24, beating its nearest rival by eight miles. Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South)... - View image in PDF

Launches 27. Lives Rescued 5.

APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward...

COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...

Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …

Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...

LAST JULY, for the first time in its history and as one of its contributions to Maritime England Year, the Institution opened its head office and depot at Poole to the public. It was an entirely new departure which provided a unique...

By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...

Lifeboat exhibition: West Mersea Primary School is a loyal supporter of the lifeboat service, having contributed more than £1,000 during the past few years. For its latest project individual children wrote to 150 lifeboat stations... - View image in PDF