LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two walkers and their dog get caught between rising seawater and 30m cliffs

Christine and Mollie stepped off the bus at Tregantle in Cornwall in late September for a day’s walking. The 25 miles between Cremyll and Polperro...

DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...

One of the last naming ceremonies attended by Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was at Dover when the Faithful Forester was commissioned. Here Princess Marina comes ashore after inspecting the Dover boat on 26th July, 1967.. - View image in PDF

AUTUMN 2017 RESULTS

Congratulations to Mr M Ferguson from Buckinghamshire who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Ms V Storey, South...

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...

OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...

To give his MG. TC, the bodvwork of which he had been re-building, a 'jolly good thrudging', Bob Shaw suggested a run from John O Groats to Land's End in aid of the lifeboats; Ian Horsefield said he would go along as second... - View image in PDF

A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...