LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...

WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...

MR. R. RENNISOX, the manager and guide of the old blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, famous for runaway marriages, which is visited by thousands of people every year, very kindly offered, at the end of June, 1950, to have collecting...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: FEBRUARY 1993 Geoffrey Flint, chairman of Weston-super- Mare station branch from 1976 to 1992 and chairman of the financial branch from 1971 to 1986. He was assistant treasurer for the station...

One of the most frequent requests to the RNLI's PR department is 'Can you arrange a trip on a lifeboat?' Sadly, the answer has to be 'no', since lifeboats are emergency vessels and need to be in constant readiness to... - View image in PDF

As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...

Introducing Lifeboat lea A great name. A great institution.

This new tea has real character Just put your ear to the cup and you'll almost hear the flavour.

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