LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Garford branch held a Race Night on 20 March which also included supper, dancing and a raffle.. - View image in PDF

ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...

Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, photographed during a service to the French trawler, St Simeon on February 15, 1985. Penlee and Plymouth lifeboats were also involved in the service, a full account of which will appear... - View image in PDF

Jon Jones, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, looks at the work of George Rawlinson, Divisional Inspector {Dl) of lifeboats for the South .

The title 'inspector' had always caused me to form a mental image in...

The relief Whitby lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher meets heavy seas as she goes to the aid of the MFV Sophie Louise, visible between her bow and the pier head, after the vessel's rudder had jammed while attempting to enter the... - View image in PDF

HMS Rothesay, first group life governor of the Institution. - View image in PDF

Gifford Rosling, ADOS (Southern),presents membership card and Shoreline flag to Commander Noel James, her commanding officer.. - View image in PDF

Above: Mike Dymond checks the flares and first aid kit aboerd Samaki II andt. - View image in PDF

Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...