LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 7.15 A.M. on the 6th April a schooner was seen making for the harbour entrance the wind then being south with a heavy sea on the bar, and a quarter of an hour later when the vessel had just got inside the river, the wind suddenly...

SOS day 2008, on 25 January, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part and supported the RNLI’s national fundraising day.

Money is still coming in, so the Lifeboat can’t announce a figure for the total...

THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.

It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...

Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...

Last spring the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum at Green- wich, and the Museum's director, Mr.

Frank Carr, decided to arrange a special life-boat and life-saving exhibition.

To the...

At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...

IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...

Waves The cover picture of the winter 1982/ 83 journal, number 482, the picture of The White Rose of Yorkshire returning to sea off Whitby Harbour, depicts vividly the dangerous sea conditions our lifeboatmen continually face around our...