LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...

Garden gnome By dressing up as a garden gnome in last year's Aldeburgh carnival, lifeboat supporter Mr M. H. Catterick won a personal bet for £100 which he very generously donated to the RNLI.

Netball shoot Eight...

JUNE 20TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

The coastguard had reported some wreckage, thought to he an aeroplane or a submarine, several miles east of Horden, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..

Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east,...

Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...

They must be practical, versatile and tough enough to take a pounding, yet still live in harmony with their communities. Architect Mark Roberts explains just some of the challenges of designing lifeboat stations

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AN Invitation Meeting, called by the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Grosvenor House (by the kind permission of theDUKE OP WESTMINSTER) on the 15th July last, for the purpose of forming a Ladies'...