LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.

Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...

ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.

The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...

By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.

Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....

Lofty lifesavers Sometimes, lifeboats need a little help from above. The Lifeboat meets the air crew who play their part in sea rescues – and who are lifesavers in their own right It’s a chilly Sunday morning on the windy, exposed airfield...

ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.

The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...

Rowing dinghy WHILE SAILING his lift 6in Laser dinghy off Thorpe Bay Yacht Club at 1555 on Friday February 27. 1981, 16-year-old Carl Palmby saw someone on the beach waving to alert him to a casualty. He immediately headed for the position...

Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...

AGM (/row page 15) At this point four Scouts, representing Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, walked down the centre aisle and up on to the platform to present the Duke with a very large cheque— large in every way, for it...