LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...

At 4.46 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported firing red flares five miles south of the Needles.

The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at...

NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...

A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...

ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a... - View image in PDF

THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...

An everyday scene which even the complacent Australian cannot take for granted is the surf boat crews battling their way through the wildest surf. They make an unforgettable sight on the shoreward run with the five-man crew crowded at the...

IN 1931 no fewer than 686 Branches held Life-boat Days, as compared with 672 in 1930 and 616 in 1929. The actual number of Days was still larger, for many Branches cover a wide area and include several districts, each of which holds its own...