LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904, The Eight Hon. Lord BRASSEY, K.C.B., in the Chair, the following...

With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety

Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...

The multi-award winning creator of Downton Abbey tells us about visiting a lifeboat station and imagines it as a setting for a new drama

WHO IS JULIAN FELLOWES?
Julian Fellowes is a novelist, Conservative peer,...

EVACUATION OF MEN OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND THE FRENCH ARMY FROM DUNKIRK.* THE WORK OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF RAMSGATE AND MARGATE.

At 1.15 in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30th of May, 1940, the Ministry of...

FEBRUARY Launches 88. Lives rescued 248.

FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a...

Belfast Lough.

i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...

AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...

THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...