LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...

Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI

2017 AT A GLANCE

32,116
people aided

3.32M

preventative

APRIL 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A fishing boat had been reported with a lot of smoke coming from her, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £18 9s. 9d..

The Motor Life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 5.45 P.M. on 6th April, in a moderate W. gale with a rough sea and rain, as the Coastguard had reported that the steam trawler River Kent was in distress and drifting off tie Mull of...

One George Medal, to COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS, of The Humber.

Two Distinguished Service Medals to COXSWAIN HOWARD PRIMROSE COOPER KNIGHT, of Ramsgate, and COXSWAIN EDWARD DRAKE PARKER, of Margate (1940).

Four...

DURING 1935 the coastguard took action in the case of 733 vessels off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rocket life-saving appar- atus companies were assembled 68 times for service and 87 people were brought to safety by...

The brig Hope, of Portsmouth, while at anchor about two miles from the mouth of this harbour, in a dismantled state, was observed to hoist signals of dis- tress, during a very high wind from the S.W., and in a heavy sea. The Life-boat...

THE late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., who had been accustomed during the latter part of his life to spend a portion of each year at Ramsgate, had at different times given a dinner to the crew of the Life-boat, to show his appreciation of...