LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI's largest bequestThe RNLI has recently received its largest legacy ever.

The bequest is eventually expected to total some £6.5m, and will be a great help to the Institution in providing new lifeboats and...

By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...

( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...

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...

ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May5, JunSJul 12,Aug3,11,17 D-536:May 5,Jun 3,13,19,24, Jul 3,10,11,13,Aug 3,6 ABERDOVEY B-758:May 22,Jun 19, Jul 16(x3),18(x2),24,27,31 B-767:Aug 9,15,16,17,20(x2) ABERSOCH B-79&May 28,Jun 3,4,24, Jul 10,15,24,27...

A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...

BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...

Three Alderney lifeboat volunteers received top honours at the Daily Express Vodafone Life Savers Awards in October for their rescue of three people swept out to seaLifeboat Operations Manager David McAllister and Lifeboatmen Phil Murray and...