LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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THIS year the Potteries were again very successful in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

They won five prizes in the inter-school competition in the Midlands. One of these five prizes was presented by...

There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...

Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?

There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...

To JOHN MATTHEWS, Coxswain of the Moelfre Life-boat, a silver watch for devotion to duty when the Life-boat was wrecked owing to breaking from her moorings during a very heavy N.E. gale, on the llth February, 1929.

To OWEN...

NOVEMBER 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.30 at night the Deal coastguard reported a vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands. A south-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...

Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.

Supervising...