LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD JANUARY 23RD - 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.40 in the morning of the 23rd, a message came from the coastguard that the S.S. Runswick, of Whitby, had been in collision, and the lifeboat crew were...

Respect the Water – the RNLI’s safety campaign – launched throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland this Summer. The campaign was bigger than ever, with thought-provoking adverts in cinemas, on radio, the web and in the press, all in the...

WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...

The Long Service Badge for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aberdovey - Shore Helper D.R. Williams Aith - Coxswain K. Henry Angle - Crew Member R. O'Callaghan...

" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...

There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...

The photograph of Number's Arun Kenneth Thelwall which will illustrate the phone book cover in full colour. - View image in PDF