LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a report was received that a dinghy had capsized between Newlyn and Penzance. A man was seen clinging to her. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 6.14 in a strong north easterly...

NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.

Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...

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Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...

COUNT WALEWSKI, late French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has obligingly forwarded to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution the following list of British seamen, to whom the Emperor of the French has, by imperial decrees,...

PLANS FOR ITS CELEBRATION.

We are now within four months of the end of our first century. The Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, at a " Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others held at the...

Books . . .

• Every now and again a book is added to the lifeboat library which can be recognised at once as a 'classic'. Such is A Source Book of Lifeboats by Ray Kipling (Ward Lock, £3.50). Few people can...

THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...