LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Every summer, RNLI lifeguards patrol more than 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, keeping thousands of beachgoers safe. But how can we keep people safe as winter approaches?

A scheme being trialled on some of...

In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.

An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...

TH« people of a maritime nation like Great Britain should be especially in- terested in any statistics relating to ships and sailors, and such matters are it may be assumed of particular importance to the friends and supporters of the...

IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...

When a swimmer drew close to a pier at a Dorset beach, lifeguards moved quickly to warn him of the dangers – but they soon found he needed more than advice

The waters off Boscombe beach looked deceptively calm on 5 May....

LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...

Safety and Survival at Sea by E. C. B. LEE OBE, C.ENG, FRINA and KENNETH LEE MBBS, LRCP, MRCS, DIH An anthology of first person accounts of man's ability—or inability—to survive at sea by the victims of all types of sea...