LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thanks to Alderney...

The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...

News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.

The building's contemporary design follows the curve...

AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...

THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.

last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...

GOURDON, N.B.—On the invitation of the local residents, a Life-boat Station has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Gourdon, a fishing vil- lage about 12 miles north of Montrose.

Shipwrecks are said to be...

DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...

DURING 1934 services were rendered off the shores of foreign countries to 34 British vessels in distress, and 69 lives were rescued from them. Of these lives 22 were rescued off the Danish coast and 44 off the coast of...

Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...