LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF

Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...

THE COVENTRY DIESEL K.F. 50 B.H.P.

TWO-STROKE MARINE OIL ENGINE A well-proved 4-cylinder engine giving 50 B.H.P. at 2000 r.p.m., specially designed for the Admiralty 16 ft. fast motor boats.

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Coxswain Sam May, of South wold.

SAMUEL C. MAY, at one time Coxswain of the Southwold Life-boat, died on 18th. May last after a long illness. He was sixty-three years old, and was appointed Second Coxswain in 1891, seven...

AUGUST 1991 Clifton Smith-Cox CBE TD, founder member of Clevedon branch and president from 1974 until his death..

Photo: Adrian Don. - View image in PDF

THE SEASON is now well under way, so may we wish all our members 'good sailing', and for those members who will not be able to go afloat, a pleasant summer.

While stationed in Ireland as inspector of lifeboats I had...

In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.

Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...