LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 21st November, the brig Robert and Sarah, of Blyth, struck on the rocks at Cullercoats during a strong southerly wind and heavy sea. The Palmerston life-boat was quickly launched and saved the vessel's crew of 8 men..

MOST persons in this country are aware that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has studded the coasts of the United Kingdom with Life-boats; but it is probably not known to many that nearly the whole of those boats are built in London,...

On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...

THE Institution has received gifts of biscuits from Messrs. Peek Frean, Huntley & Palmer, McVitie & Price and W. &. R. Jacob, and of chocolate from Messrs. Rowntree, Cadbury and Fry.

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The D class lifeboat is named in memory of Ken and Mary Stansfield and was handed over by their grandson Toby Stansfield.

Also present were the Stansfield's two sons, who had flown in from Dorset and Maryland, USA, to... - View image in PDF

Greater London.

Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At midday on the 25th of February, 1950, a strong north-easterly wind was bringing up a dangerous sea on the Harbour bar, while the local motor fishing vessels, the Pilot Me II and Success were still at sea. At 12.15 the...

Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...