LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.

Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.

Her second...

HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...

You plan for things that might happen.

GOLDEN CHARTER X Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...

Swimmer saved by lifeboat Coxswain n a remarkable service at Cromer Richard Davies, Coxswain of the station's all-weather lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks Inscribed on Vellum and the three man crew of the inshore D class...

A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...

READER OFFERS Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNLI OCEAN CRUISES 2008-2010 DEPARTING FROM THE UK - NO FLYING! Our ship the MV Van Gogh has become a firm favourite with UK passengers and is often referred to as ‘the happiest ship afloat’...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...

FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.

At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...