LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...

THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...

THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...

FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...

THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.

"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...

A strong W.N.W. gale with a very heavy sea on 1st February caused great anxiety to be felt for some of the fishing boats which were at sea. About 4 P.M. a boat was seen approaching the harbour, and as it was felt that she could never weather...

NORTH DEAL and RAMSGATE, KENT.

—At 10.15 A.M. on the 29th August a barque was observed from Deal ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was promptly launched and proceeded to her assistance. She proved...

Motor Life-Boats of the North and South Holland Life-Boat Society on the Zuidersee. - View image in PDF