LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...

SKATERAW, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Skateraw, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the coast of Haddingtonshire.

This was found to be...

Launches 75 Lives rescued 31

SEPTEMBER 1ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 4.45 in the afternoon the sailing boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan, was sailing round the Black Rock in Dungarvan harbour. She had five on board....

'When we're needed—we're needed! And when we're needed, we'll be there!' THESE WORDS of a Swanage coxswain, logged in the station history, are a promise this little Dorset town has been proud to fulfil. Opening the...

Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...

Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...

UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...

THE Southend - on - Sea motor life- boat, Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had already been out in the great gale of 23rd Novem- ber, 1938, on almost continuous service for twelve hours, was again called out three days later, on...