LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SINCE THE FORMATION of Spalding and District branch five years ago we have always spent the second weekend in May working very hard raising money for the RNLI at various stalls dotted around the route of the spectacular Spalding Flower...

Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...

Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.

The Princess was greeted...

AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.

Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...

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Jan. 13.—Five men put off in a boat for the purpose of saving the crew of the smack Margaret Ann, of Fishguard, which stranded in a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea, off Bumham, on the 1st December, 1909.—Reward, 11. 10s. Also 18s. to...

/ April the Kale Kenned ('Inh in Si A ndrews. Scotland, organised a learn relay fun run in aid of tin- Institution. The relay race ii- n sinned hy the Duke of Alholl. chairman of the RNLI. nnh hundreds of competitors taking /tun unit... - View image in PDF

FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...