LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.

Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...

Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.44 on the night of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been seen to burn flares one mile off Minster, Isle of Sheppey.

At 10.15 the life-boat Greater...

To Mrs. GOLDIE, in recognition of her valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Bath Branch, the Gold Brooch and the Record of Thanks.

To the HON. MABEL GOUGH-CALTHORPE, in recognition of her valuable co-operation...

FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.

At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...

Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF

With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...