LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Terry George, coxswain/ mechanic of the Sennen Cove lifeboat, joined the crew of the station's all-weather lifeboat in 1983 and was appointed coxswain/ mechanic in 1989. Terry also became a member of the station's inshore lifeboat in...

APRIL 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At about 6.50 P.M. the naval authorities reported that a tug was ashore on the North GoodwinSands. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.5 P.M...

The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.

Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...

The National Association of Round Tables of  Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.

The...

GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.

She sank in a...

RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.

At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...

MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.

The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Apologies! You may have been one of several members who experienced strange happenings which coincided with the delivery of your Autumn journal, and unreserved apologies are due to all...