LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 31st October the steam drifter Viola, of Banff, ran ashore on Scroby Sands when returning to Yarmouth from the fishing grounds.

An increasing N.N.E. wind was blow- ing and the sea was heavy on the sands.

Even as they're growing older, your children will still look to you for support.

Especially when the grandkids come along! So, as well as offering words of wisdom, it's good to know you can also lighten 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...

(Below) City of Bristol at her naming ceremony, performed by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G. Peglar, seen above with Captain Roy Harding (left) and crew members.

Photograph by courtesy of Bristol Evening... - View image in PDF

Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coxswain received a message from Ballycotton lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting about a mile and a half east-by- north of the...

Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...

The schooner Janie, i of Padstow, whilst bound from Llanelly to London, stranded during moderate weather on the 23rd February on the north-west part of the Tongue sand.

In response to signals from light- vessels the No. 1...

LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.

Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...