LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

The police reported at 2.30 A.M.

that rockets had been seen north of Southport Pier, and the motor life-boat Dunleary put out at 3.10 A.M. A moderate...

ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...

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C.W.C EQUIPMENT...

Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 Class Lord Bortherton Photo Courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.

But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...

In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..

The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...

IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...