LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 6.45 p.m. on i8th June, 1966, it was reported that a man had come ashore from a cabin cruiser which had run out of fuel off Camber. The casualty was anchored offshore. At 6.53 the Rye police indicated that there were four women and two...

News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including Silver and Bronze Medal services Fit for the Job 14 Coswain Peter Barker tells how the work of Margate lifeboat attracts the...

AUTUMN 2010
Ms J Pollard-Ovens of West Glamorgan scooped first prize of £5,000 in the Autumn Lifeboat Lottery and elebrated with a visit to her local lifeboat station at Port Talbot.

The other cash prize...

Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.

—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...

FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...

Oh dear, oh deer On 21 May Bridlineton's D class lifeboat Bridlington's was launched after two deer from a nearby park took to the water when chased by dogs.

We reproduce the station honorary secretary's report...

crew of the Motor Life-Boat Charter- house were assembled, and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which by this j time had drifted outside the eastern I breakwater and run ashore. When j the Life-boat reached the ...

Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...