LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FACING DANGER TOGETHER k The St. Ives lifeboat 'RNLB The Princess Royal' with a Royal Navy rescue helicopter of 771 Squadron by Christopher Southcombe The original painting was commissioned by Mr Leslie Leek of Tregenna Castle...

Thursday, 2nd April, 1868.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS HOME DIGITAL WEATHER STATION The WeatherPro provides full digital weather monitoring. It includes a microprocessor data display; a remote precision wind vane/anemometer assembly; an external temperature probe and 12 metres...

North Sunderland Mersey class Grace Darling Despite forecasts of heavy rain, the morning of Tuesday 24 September dawned bright.

However, there was also a Force 8/9 gale which caused the naming ceremony site at North...

Out in the open around the country! Once again the RNLI will be opening its facilities to visitors this year, enabling them to gain a firsthand impression of how the Institution works and the quality of the boats and...

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...

IT is ALWAYS pleasing to report that one of our Shoreline clubs has been actively involved in fund raising. Such a club is No 8 at Peterborough which, in conjunction with the local RNLI branch, ran a very successful SOS day in Ferry Meadows...

THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...