LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

Last year was the Year of the Volunteer and involved a clutch of associated awards in celebration of volunteering. Four awardees were recognised for their commitment to the RNLI: Leesa Espley, Norfolk; John Roberts, East Riding of Yorkshire;...

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Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.

Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...

HRH The Duke of Kent visited the Institution's London base in The Marine Society's premises, Lambeth, last March to attend a meeting of the Committee of Management, the first such meeting ever to be addressed by the President.... - View image in PDF

MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...

ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....

and girls 152. The prize for the best essay has now been won nine times by girls and seven times by boys (a boy and a girl tying for it in 1933).

The Awards.

Alice Chambers will receive a copy of...