LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pages 20-21: A complex training exercise underway, calling on the skills and fitness of all the crew Photo: Mark Passmore. - View image in PDF

To JOHN JAGO, on his retirement, after serving 35 years as Signalman and previously 16 years as a member of the crew of the Rye Harbour Life-boat, a Pension.

To ALEXANDER SINCLAIR, on his retirement, after serving 11 years...

Barrow, Lancashire - At 2.45 a.m.

on 28th September, 1966, news was received that an air search had been in operation since the previous day for the yacht J.B.W., which was overdue at Glasson dock on passage from the Isle...

Obituaries It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: April 1987 Captain Olaf Bjornstad, ex-Secretary General of the Norwegian Lifeboat Society. He was appointed an honorary life governor of the RNLI in...

The Mersey class lifeboat Four Boys. - View image in PDF

THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.

Although the Society ("...

Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...

LAST Christmas a number of Branches again arranged carol-singing parties.

East Grinstead (Sussex), which has been most successful with its carol-singing for the past four Christmases, collected over £16 in two evenings...