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...

Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...

Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 1874 IAMES Type 50 ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0' Beam 14' 6' Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin General...

Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 1874 THAMES Type 50 ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0' Beam 14' 6' Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin...

STORM ON THE WATERS The Story of the Life-boat Service in the War of 1939-1945 By CHARLES VINCE " Read it, and you will hear the gales roaring; no breeziness here, no mere soldier's wind, but a blow to match the courage of the...

On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...

Awards for saving drowning man...

Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...

Lives saved.

Advance, steamer, of Glasgow ... 3 Alnwick, schooner, of Beaumaris. . 3 Amelie, brig, of Frederickstadt... 9 Andola, ship, of Andola 28 Andrada, barque, of Liverpool— landed 19.

Aneurin,...