LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Whitby No. 1 life- boat leaving harbour on the 15th of...

As the year turns, we look forward to new opportunities and new challenges, not least, here in the pages of the Lifeboat.

Founded more than 185 years ago, the RNLI was more than just a dream for Sir William Hillary (see...

It was 5.20pm and an hour from high tide so the beach was almost covered and waves were breaking into the coves beneath the cliffs. For some time now, the lifeguards had been keeping an eye on a large group of surfers. When Ollie’s attuned...

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DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.

Nothing had been found...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea. The sea increased and at 10 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.55 a.m. on 3rd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that anxiety was being felt for the safety of a fishing party of some nine or ten people who had not returned to...

THE national sponsored walk, 1971, raised £33,538 new money for the R.N.L.I. Among the completed walks this year was one by the Crayford branch held in the grounds of Bexleyheath School, where the sum of £590 was raised by children...