LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.

I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...

New D class at Trearddur BayNew D class at Trearddur BayThe crew of the Treaddur Bay lifeboat have already undergone intensive training on the new lifeboat.

On average the station's lifeboat is launched over 50 times a...

THIS benevolent and ingenious gentleman has been gathered to his fathers, full of years and honours, his decease having occurred on the 18th November last, at his residence Southdown, near Great Yarmouth.

His well-known...

A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...

THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, Humphrey Lestocq, was at the first floor window of his home on the afternoon of Friday August 27, 1982, watching the flight of a red Tiger Moth fitted with floats, a familiar sight in...

THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.

The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...

AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...

Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...