LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....

(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...

Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. — At 4.44 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Flamborough Head coast- guard telephoned that a boy, swim- ming in Thornwick Bay, had been washed on to the rocks below Thorn- wick Bay Camp. The life-boat...

Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …

'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....

A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...

It’s time to run – the pager’s gone off, calling the dedicated volunteer fromtheir work or bed. Mairéad Dwane discovers the technology behind the drama

RNLI crew members, shore helpers, launching authorities, medical...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Whitby No. 1 life- boat leaving harbour on the 15th of...