LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.

on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...

IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.

It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The...

— The NATIOHAI, •ION has formed another Life-boat establishment on the coast of Essex, for the better protection of the shipping which crowds the channels lead- ing to the Thames. The Life-boat had only been placed on its station at...

THE Institution has decided to fit Aqualite L.20 automatic lights on all life-jackets in use in the service.

Trials of this lighting device have been carried out at twelve life-boat stations since April, 1960. The lights...

A mother grieving for her drowned son is helping the RNLI to raise awareness of water safety

Plamen Petkov had appeared to be like any other visitor to the beach, until he drowned saving the...

ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE. LONDON, was decor- ated and illuminated in celebration of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Patrons of the Institution.

Sixty life-boat stations were supplied with sets...

LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...