LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.

The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...

The Life-boat Oldham was launched on service at 11 P.M. on the 16th March in answer to signals of distress made by the schooner Two Brothers, of Car- narvon. There was a whole S.S.W.

gale blowing and a very heavy sea, and...

Middle oic: Kitted out in wet weather gear and /ifeyackers, crew members get ready to leap into the pool below.. - View image in PDF

Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...

' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...

As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....

THE DEATH of Captain Nigel Dixon was a serious and sudden loss to the RNLI.

He became Secretary of the Institution.

a t i t l e which was later altered to that of Director, at a difficult time in 1970. Not...

OC T O B E R 1 3 T H . - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.16 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Mount Taygetus of Piraeus, of over 3,000 tons, hadstranded about a mile S.E. of The Mumbles Head. A strong S.E. wind was blowing,...