LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bundoran 

Sun shines on named after. soapbox race

Bundoran’s seventh annual soapbox race took place in June, with crowds turning out to marvel at people’s engineering triumphs – and chuckle at their...

Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI COALPORT A Limited Edition of2500 The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.

Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save...

Launch the 160th anniversary of the RNLI by introducing THE COXSWAIN to your garden Produced by rose specialists James Cocker and Sons, Aberdeen, in limited quantity for RNLI friends and supporters, this peach pink, sweetly scented hybrid...

Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...

At 5.15 A.M.

on the 16th July a message was re- ceived from the Coastguard stating that a steamer was ashore at Beachy Head. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing at the time, with a very heavy sea, and without delay the motor...

FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.

JAN. 1,...

CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...

Building tomorrow's supportersThe RNLI is expanding its youth education programme with the appointment of regional education officers for all of its 10 regions. Their task will be to motivate a new generation of potential lifesavers and...