LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the five winter months the Institution has awarded 20 medals for gallantry to English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish life-boatmen. The stations which have won them are Maryport, Southend-on-Sea, Tynemouth, and Walton and Frinton in England;...

Invitation only.' By kind invitation of the crew, members of the Weymouth ladies' guild enjoyed a trip on the Weymouth lifeboat while she was on an exercise. The trip was intended as a token of thanks from the crew for all the hard... - View image in PDF

Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...

We’re a few months into our Charity of the Year partnership with Yorkshire Building Society – and their fundraising is already making a splash!

The Come Rain or Shine campaign was launched on 27 January – SOS Day....

On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...

ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...

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

Two lifeboats in night search for disabled yacht in heavy seas The Institution's chief of operations has written to Stephen Vince, the Coxswain/Mechanic of Poole lifeboat, to congratulate him on his leadership and boat handling skill...