LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bird's eye view of RNLl works depot from headquarters building: now they are only separated by West Quay Road. There is water frontage to Holes Bay with a quay where offshore lifeboats can be moored alongside and also a... - View image in PDF

AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.

Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was making for Sheringham in very bad weather. At 7.42 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was...

The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.

Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF

AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.

She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...

fectly and they departed full of smiles, I suspect of relief, and only charged a nominal fee.

Hatherleigh Market was close by so I asked the market RSPCA inspector to check William; he was reported in excellent...

Brian Potts (I.), who came ashore in 1976 after 16 years at sea as an engineer officer in the Merchant Navy, presents a painting to Eastbourne Lifeboat Museum. It was accepted by Alderman Cecil Baker c.), station honorary secretary, and... - View image in PDF

Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...