LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly

Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...

Greater London.

BROMLEY AND COVENT GARDEN.— Life-boat Days.

BALING.—Addresses to Groavenor Ward Women's Conservative Association and the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secretary. Life-boat...

THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...

Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.

—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...

ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.

In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...

IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.

In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...

THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...

" AT 9 P.M. on the 18th of March, 1828, the boat belonging to the Venus Steam Packet, of Glasgow, William Brown, Commander, landed at Glynn, in the County of Wexford, with nine persons on board, including himself and one female ; and...