LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor yacht had broken down just off the Brake sands. There was no wind and the sea was smooth.

At 10.18...

SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...

Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—llth December, 1937. The s.s. Annagher, of Belfast, sank off Ballymacormick Point, with the loss of nine of her crew of ten.

The life-boat was quickly launched, but the steamer went down too quickly...

NOVEMBER 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST.

IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the Newquay motor life-boat put out. While she was out information was received that another British aeroplane was...

The RNLI is the official charity of this year’s Hillsborough International Oyster Festival.

Seafood lovers will gather in the Co Down town to chow down on a slippery supper, watch the World Oyster Eating Championship and...

AT 3.49 on the afternoon of the 8th of November, 1956, the honorary secre- tary at St. David's, Dr. Joseph Soar, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was being towed into Milford Haven and might need help. The Angle life-boat at the...

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...