LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Duke of Kent meets Torbay lifeboat crew members Photo: Al Macphee @ Miracle. - View image in PDF

LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...

A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

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As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?

When a warm afternoon turned to cool...

THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...