LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...

The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...

An article on the Padstow Station, which last year celebrated its Centenary, appeared in the Life-boat for last November, and particulars were given of the Medals which had been won by Padstow Life-boatmen. Several Medals have to be added to...

By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...

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An eerie sensation. With canvas screens over all her wheelhouse windows The Princess Hoyal makes her way out to sea from Poole Harbour for blind pilotage exercises. Every aid to navigation is brought into use in the drill.. - View image in PDF

An event for every tasteRNLI doesn't mean that you have to organise your own event. Maybe you fancy something a little different or physically demanding?The RNLI is involved in hundreds of fun and action-packed fundraising events...

For so many people, the lifeboat service is synonymous with those who risk their lives, putting out to sea to save others. Here, RAY KIPLING, Assistant Director of the RNLI, takes a look at the less glamorous, but equally important role...