LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...

Born on February 6, 1876, Henry Blogg served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world wars. He was awarded three gold medals for gallantry and four silver Five Cromer lifeboatmen who were in the crew...

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...

ILB Dash TWO TEENAGE girls brought word to Rhossili Coastguard Station, at 6 p.m.

on July 2, 1973, that four of their friends were stranded on Worms Head.

A member of the Coastguard drove straight to the...

Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.

THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.

The new...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept In roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF

THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...