LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

An RNLI team travelled to Bangladesh in March to help set up the country’s first lifesaving club. And, on 16 April, club member Mohammed Abdul Sukkur saved his first life, rescuing a drowning tourist from a rip...

Selsey, Sussex. At 7 a.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares off Hayling. At 7.22 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched. A gale* was blowing from the south-west, thesea was very rough and the tide was; ebbing. The...

WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.

I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...

Contents ««--Q-* a, Penlee Formal Investigation 221 Volume XL VIII Lifeboat Service. 222 Number 4o4 Happy people: rescued two and saved boat 228 The naming of RNLB Ann Ritchie, Oban 229 Chairman: American Connection: the naming of...

[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...

THE facsimile reproduction which we give of a ship's collection sheet, as it was returned to the Port of Liverpool Branch, is only one example, but a very striking example, of the generosity of the mercantile marine to the Life-boat...

The first process. Dividing a crook for stems. It weighed 5 tons and the tree was about 200 years old.. - View image in PDF

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...