LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...

IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...

At 2.40 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Rocka- Nore. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 2.46 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was high...

Since 1979 Chelsea Pensioner Company Sergeant Major Albert Spurdin has been a regular, and colourful, visitor to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show persuading the public to put money into his collecting box.

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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF RUSSIAN FREIGHTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 4th October, 1962, a message was received that the freighter Zenit of Leningrad, which was anchored off the Nelson buoy, had a man on...

WHILE this Institution is endeavouring to supply our coasts with ample means for saving life on occasions of accident at sea, and whilst our sister institution, " The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent...

Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.

Unusual Service by A VERY unusual Life-boat Service was carried out on 4th September last, when the No. 2 Life-boat at Whitby, a 34-feet Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, was called out to...

17th April. A fishing boat was reported to be missing but had anchored in a creek.—Rewards, £9 7s..