LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 9TH . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 11 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that a Greek steamer was sinking north of Unst, and that the life-boat should go to Balta Sound and await further...

This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...

• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).

The great rescues from...

THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Canon Murphy The Catholic Parish Priest Blesses The New Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.

in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...

'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...

Loch Fyne restaurants, long-standing supporters of the RNLI, are redoubling their efforts with a fundraising push this Autumn.

The company is challenging each of its 44 restaurants to raise £500 by the end of November...