LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was...

HECTA echo sounder Model RS obtains the best of both worlds by using the rotating lamp system of display (with bright, everlasting light-emitting diodes) in the instrument case and a meter for the cockpit repeater. Hecta RS has a powerful 10...

Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.

Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....

AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...

Filey Crew Member Fran Wilkins (pictured) showed a cool head at sea during her coxswain’s assessment in October when she was diverted to some walkers cut off by the tide. With Fran in charge, and two RNLI inspectors aboard, the crew found...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the crew of two of the yacht Osiris, of Beaumaris, had made their yacht fast to the Morecambe Bay light- vessel because of the...

This map is reproduced by courtesy of the Air Ministry..

AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...