LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN 1932 the number of Branches which held Life-boat Days was 713, an increase of 27 on the previous year. Each year there has been a steady increase, and there were nearly 100 more Days in 1932 than in 1929.

Though the...

Caister, Norfolk.—About noon on the 29th of July, 1957, a small boat was seen from the boathouse to be flying a distress flag. She was towing a larger vessel and appeared to be mak- ing little progress north of the north- west Scroby buoy....

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...

FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.

His appointment as editor...

IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...

Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans

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Across the Arctic Ocean –...

PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been...

TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …

It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...