LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

List of New Branches.

THE following new Branches have been formed since the list published in The Lifeboat for February, 1927 :— Branch.

Abergavenny . . . . .

Abertillery . . . ....

Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.

The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...

G o v e r n o r s - S h o r e l i n e - S t o r m F o r c e Moving with the Times The Institution's membership scheme continues to flourish, with a total of almost 177,000 members at the end of 1990 giving an increase of more than 15% on...

10 years ago, we opened our training centre of excellence. A decade on, what difference has RNLI College made?

There’s a small but unusual entry in the Winter 2012 launches feature of the...

On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF

NEWSPOINT What would Sir William Hillary have thought about the day when Rye Harbour lifeboat rescued 29 children and adults from inflatable toys on a hot summer's day earlier this year (see Lifeboat Services)? When he founded the RNLI...

(Below) Ken Voice, coxswain of Shoreham lifeboat, received a cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton, chief ranger of the Court Sussex Elm, Independent Order of Foresters. The money was raised by court members during... - View image in PDF

Regular customers of the Brewery Shades pub, Crawley, raised £89 by dropping coins and notes behind a glass screen in the bar.

A competition to guess how much was behind the screen was won by Rufus, a dog.