LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...

AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed Coxswain Hugh Jones of Beaumaris that the Greek tanker Essar I was drifting with engine trouble and with her engine room flooded one mile north of Point Lynas....

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Michael Ashley, south east regional manager, presented the Roderick cup to Phil Barry, the proprietor of the Beachcomber Cafe, Barton-on-Sea, the winner of the annual competition for the top collecting box The ladies in the photograph are... - View image in PDF

At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she could reach her the...

The deaths have occurred of Captain the Lord Teynham, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., who served on the Committee of Management for 35 years, and Sir Eric Seal, K.B.E., C.B., also a member of the Committee of Management, who for 17 years was chairman...

The night was dark and stormy, The waves were rough and high ; A gallant ship was tossing,— Her crew were like to die.

But see! they've launched the life-boat; 'Tis manned by Britons brave, Who risk their life for...

THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...