LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When Spring approaches and inshore lifeboats prepare for their busy period, George Dadson, RNLI truck driver, knows there is far more going on behind the scenes than may meet the public eye…George is responsible for ensuring the inflatables...

Penta for R NIL For reliable power and unsurpassed dependability.

The RNLI are putting Penta outboards in , their new inshore rescue craft. With Penta 360, these revolutionary Pell Quay 17ft fibreglass dories get away to an...

Guides for lifeboat enthusiasts For those who are fascinated by the history of an individual station, who want to trace a relief lifeboat through its travels from station to station, or who just want to check their facts and figures, these...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.

I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September, 1952, the coxswain of the motor life- boat reported that the fishing coble Whitby Lass was at sea and that con- ditions on the harbour bar were very dangerous in...

Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...