LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the... - View image in PDF

AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...

IT was stated in the first Number of this Journal, that it would be published monthly, or occasionally, as circumstances might point out, and that it would be sold at the lowest possible price that would cover the expense of paper and...

Pictured: Back l-r Paul Spratt, Matthew Crow and Stewart Olley, the crew of the Vic and BHtie Whiften. Front l-r Launcher Matthew Fosset with the crew of the Ethel Royal, Michael Whistler and Tony Bonham. - View image in PDF

IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...

Born to be wild - Skegness lifeboat crew Heft to right! Ginger Sewell. Mark Holley, Dave Sellers, Hay Chapman, John Irving and Richard Watson In front is Morris Hatton. lifeboat shop manager and ex crew member of over 40 years, on what is... - View image in PDF

IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...

(left) .. . A look at Lincoln guild press cutting book with Mrs Nancy Newton, honorary treasurer. Mrs Glenys Foster, chairman and honorary secretary, is on the Duke's right.

photograph by courtesy of Lincolnshire... - View image in PDF