LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Board of Trade have recently pub- lished, in accordance with their annual custom, a Blue Book overflowing with interesting information and tables of figures such as to delight the most enthusiastic statistician, furnishing elaborate...

ON 4th March, the hundredth birth- day of the Institution, the following telegrams of congratulation were received from abroad—from foreign Governments, Life-boat Services and Shipping and Sailors' Societies. They are another tribute to...

Acting Coxswain Roy Couzens Station: Dover Boat: 50ft Thames Rotary Service Conditions: Wind SSW Force 16- 17, gusting to more than 100 knots. Seas 20ft high within Dover Harbour, more than 60ft outside.

Service: Rescued... - View image in PDF

FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...

MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the...

Some ways of filling the coffers… In brief...In brief...In brief.

BARRY YACHT Club donated £1,300 to Barry Dock branch chairman last November, £400 of which came from an RNLI 'levy' which the club includes...

Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...

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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...