LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR a series of prolonged services extending over more than three days Coxswain Frank Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry. The other members of the crew have all been accorded the...

The RNLI is working nationally with many safety-related bodies to promote safety at sea, but the Island Cruising Club and its local lifeboat station are already working well together...

Richard Johnstone-Bryden reports from...

DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.

Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUN' PAYMENTS.

LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account— Anstruther, Cromer, Ilfracombe, Kirkcudbright, Newbiggin, St. Abbs, Wells, materials for future building and...

30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...

IN 1931 no fewer than 686 Branches held Life-boat Days, as compared with 672 in 1930 and 616 in 1929. The actual number of Days was still larger, for many Branches cover a wide area and include several districts, each of which holds its own...

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 INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...

Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.

I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...