LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London. Two of the...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1953.

the coastguard rang up to say that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported that a man in a cabin cruiser which had broken down, had made fast to...

Where the money goes... New production Trent and Severn class lifeboats are now entering service, each costing more than £1m . With speeds of up to 25 knots they are reducing the response times wherever they are stationed. The prototype... - View image in PDF

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...

Raymond Pope, Bexleyheath branch president from 1980 until his death. Raymond was also on the RNLI staff for 20 years, the last 10 as the City of London regional organiser..

For about 20 early lifeboats which have been fitted with air bags to give them a self-righting capability, there has been the possibility, in the event of a capsize, that water could enter the mast and find its way through the exhaust system...

NIGHT-LONG SEARCH St. Mary's, Scffly Islands. At 6.10 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the yacht Fair Judgement, on passage from Gibraltar, had asked for guidance to the Scilly Islands. The yacht was...

ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...