LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF

READERS WILL FIND below suggested clauses covering bequests to the Royal National Life-boat Institution which may be of assistance to their solicitors in preparing their wills, should they decide to remember the Institution in this...

FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.

THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.

At low tide men have...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533 The Life-boat Service in 1930.

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Certificates of Service and Pensions.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: WILLIAM MATTHEWS, 20 years coxswain and 4 years second coxswain of the Beaumaris life-boat.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.

SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...

News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues Task of the Vikings 16 Jim Ferguson takes a look at the Norwegian lifeboat service A New Zealand lease...