LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During 1969 life-boats of the Royal South-Holland Association for the Saving of the Shipwrecked were called out 70 times, 30 of which resulted in 111 lives being saved. Over 50 per cent, of the services last year resulted from various...

COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...

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THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the motor mechanic reported that conditions between Bow Rock and Taing of Selwick were deteriorat- ing. The steam trawler Strathelliot had stranded there...

On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...

THE new Motor Life-boat now being built for the Institution's Station at New Brighton, the first of the 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boats with cabins, will, it is hoped, be completed and ready to be sent to her station this summer. It has...

So many people walking up The Path in Appledore last summer stopped to enjoy the beautiful window boxes and hanging baskets of flowers in front of Peter Longridge's house that he decided to put a jar for collecting money for the RNLI in... - View image in PDF