LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

'STICK WITH IT' Mr. Peter W. Derham, assistant operational secretary of the Mudeford IRB, told a public meeting of the Christchurch, Hants, branch of the R.N.L.I. that a 'cardinal sin' of the sea was for anyone to leave their...

On the 2nd Jan., 1873, the Princess of Wales Life-boat at this station, in answer to signals of distress, proceeded to the brig Mystic, of Newport, which she leached shortly before midnight.

Previous efforts had been made...

Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addressed the audience at the morning Annual General Meeting. - View image in PDF

Greater London.

BARNEHURST.—Mrs. Pickering ap- pointed honorary secretary.

BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Lantern lecture to the Women's Citizens Association by the dis- trict organising...

IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...

Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...

On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...

My husband was involved in the rescue of a surfer reported on page 18 of your Autumn 2012 issue. He was pretty shaken up by the experience and we'd like to emphasise the survivor's learning, that surfers should never go out alone. We...