LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

4-STAR WINTER HOLIDAY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Malta Wintersun Special Look what's included in the price: * Return flights from Gatwick (other airports at a supplement).

* Transfers in Malta.

* 3rd week...

DECEMBER 16TH and l7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a steamer, off Goring, was going round in circles and sounding her whistle. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....

APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.

While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...

THE Scottish Life-boat Council which was set up at the Conference held in Edinburgh last January, and which it was decided should meet twice a year, held its first and preliminary meeting, at which it elected its officers, in Edinburgh on...

IN the article called " A Roam Through the Annual Report," which appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the number of places in which Street Collections had been held in 1928 was nearly 800, and that in this...

Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...

The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade

When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...

M. ANDRE CITROEN has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of his valuable services in showing on behalf of the Institution films of the two African expeditions which have been carried out by the Citroen...