LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Since its opening in 2004, The Lifeboat College has become firmly established as the home of RNLI training. Crew and lifeguard training is the College’s most important purpose, but it has also been doing a fi ne job fundraising. Last year...

THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...

Early on the morning of the 12th October the motor yacht Bunts, bound from Scapa for London, with a crew of three, broke down about eight miles S.S.E. of Scurdy- ness. She had no sails on board and was helpless. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...

APRIL 22ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the naval base that a vessel was sinking south of Gull Buoy. A gentle E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was...

ON Friday, 20th February, 1914, a deplorable calamity overtook the Fethard (Co. Wexford) Life-boat, and plunged the lit tie Irish village in mourning for nine of its gallant crew, who gave their lives in the attempt to save the crew of the...

Margate, Kent - At 2.46 p.m. on gth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Skylark was in difficulties about 400 yards off Herne Bay. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 3.14 in a north easterly...

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 5th November, a three-masted vessel was observed ashore on the East Burrows or Sunk Sand, but no signals could be made out even with the aid of a powerful telescope. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W....

NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...