LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON life-boat flag day in Birming- ham an elderly woman went to a collector, and instead of putting copper or silver in the life-boat in return for her flag, gave the collector a little package. When it was opened it was found to contain...

Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.

Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF

FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...

Torquay Sea Cadet Corps raised £200 in a day with a teddy bear raffle.

Here their chairman, Mr P. Carter, hands over the proceeds to Coxswain Arthur Curnow of Torbay lifeboat. On the left is Captain Barry Anderson,... - View image in PDF

On the 13th October, during a strong N.E.

gale with a rough sea, signals of distress were seen at 6.30 A.M. from the smack Vivid of Wexford, which had stranded the previous day about three-quarters of a mile W.N.W. of...

At the South East District Conference George A. Hodgkins (r.), vice-president ofReigate and Redhill branch, presented a cheque for £10,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, KCB, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, watched by the... - View image in PDF

A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago

A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...

THE LATE EDWARD SPENDER, ESQ.

BY the lamented death of this gentleman, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has lost one of its ablest and most steadfast advocates in the press. On Friday, the 7th June last, Mr. Spender...