LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

We’ve always been about keeping people safe, and that includes volunteers, staff, and supporters like you, says Chief Executive Paul Boissier:

‘For the last 191 years, the RNLI has been...

Right. An fl/fltramed Ministry of Defence Police Marine Officer wearing the Gecko helmet. - View image in PDF

On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...

Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton - a bar to the Bronze medal. - View image in PDF

A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...

The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...

LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.

For whenever the storm with its...

THE life of Sir Henry Oliver, most appropriately called A Great Seaman and written by Sir William James (H. F. and G. Witherby, 18,9.), is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes of an adventurous career, mostly taken from his own notes and...