LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

by Joanne O'Brien/Format The medallists at the 1996 Presentation of Awards, pictured at Tower Bridge before the ceremony. With them are the family rescued by Little and Broad Haven's D class and the two girls plucked to safety from... - View image in PDF

These days David Copp never complains about the time his wife spends on the phone. . .

. .The reason is simple., the Copps have found a unique and easy way to raise money for their favourite charity, the...

by Maggie Murray/Format Prior to the Annual Presentation of Awards on 19 May, the six Bronze Medallists line up aboard the Mersey class Marine Engineer for the photocall on the Thames.

Next Issue: The Autumn issue of THE... - View image in PDF

by Dave Trotter The new Mersey class 12-002, to be named Sealink Endeavour, makes her public debut at a special press day at Hastings during July. She is to be stationed at Hastings once operational trials are... - View image in PDF

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

EASTBOURNE AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

—The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...