LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In five years and three months of war our life-boats have rescued 5,895 lives from ships and aeroplanes. That is an average of 21 lives every week, or three lives rescued for every one during the 20 years of peace between the two...

• Ship wiring cables and flexible curds manufactured by British Insulated ("allcnder's Cables Ltd are being used almost exclusively in the latest vessels being built for the RNLI. Such cables have to conform to rigorous standards...

Mike Eacott, licensee of the Crown Hotel, North Scale, Barrow-in-Furness, his barmaid and 12 'regulars', determined to do something special for Barrow lifeboat, took lessons in parachute jumping, then raised £1,800 in... - View image in PDF

Barefoot in the mud AT 1945 ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1987, two nine-year-old boys were seen by the station honorary secretary and motor mechanic at Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, taking a punt across the River Ribble to the opposite bank,...

ARKLOW.—On the 30th March it was reported by the master of a fishing smack that a barque had grounded on the Arklow Bank. The Out-Pensioner Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and found she was the barque Pater, of Sundswall, Sweden,...

A SELECTION FROM OVER 100 PHARMACEUTICAL-GRADE SUPPLEMENTS QUALITY GUARANTEED – HEALTHSPAN PRODUCTS ARE MADE USING THE PUREST INGREDIENTS IN PREMISES THAT CONFORM TO THE STRICTEST PHARMACEUTICAL STANDARDS (GMP). IF YOU’RE NOT ENTIRELY HAPPY...

The Duff Life-boat, stationed at this port, was launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the Russian schooner Maria Nathalin, on the 2nd Feb., about noon, at which time there was a heavy snowstorm, with the gale E.S.E. The Duff...

Mr. Michael Constable, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who is chief engineer of the m.v. Rangitoto, has turned his hobby of lapidary—collecting stones and pebbles—into profit for the R.N.L.I. During voyages he polishes stones and pebbles to... - View image in PDF