LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent - On 2nd December, 1966, the Dover life-boat Southern Africarescued seven men from the Varne lightvessel.

A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on...

RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...

During a thick fog on the morning of the 23rd November the s.s. Lancresse, of Guernsey, bound from London to Newlyn with a cargo of stone, and the Norwegian steamer Tres, of Tonsberg, Blyth for Caen, with a cargo of coal, came into collision...

SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...

HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.32 a.m. on 23rd November, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an aircraft had come down in the sea in the St. Bride's bay area and her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat Joseph Soar...

John Nicholson MBE, coxswain of New Brighton lifeboat from 1939 to 1954. He first joined Hoylake crew in 1911 and then the New Brighton crew in 1921, and was second coxswain of No. 2 boat from 1922 to 1932 and No. 1 boat from 1932 to 1938....

Ranugate, Kent.—During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the...