LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cheques totalling £4,000 were presented to three charities at St. Martin's School, Walton, Surrey, in October. This sum was raised at the school fete in July—and was nearly double the amount raised at the late fete three years ago....

MAY 31ST. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. A vessel had been reported aground, but another vessel towed her to safety. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d..

THE review of the Institution's Motor Fleet, which it is usual to make at this time of the year, reveals the fact that we are feeling our way slowly, but surely, in the use of Life-boats installed with motor power. Ten years ago there...

The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...

THURSDAY, 11th April, 1895.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous Meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...

During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...

American Invasion' AS A TRAINING EXERCISE, three American inflatable assault boats set out from Calais on the morning of Tuesday, August 19, 1975, to cross the Channel, land and scale the cliffs of Dover.

However, the...

Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...