LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat.

H.R.H. THE DUKE of KENT, KG., on 27th June named the motor life-boat at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This is the ninth motor life-boat which he has named. The other eight have...

THE Institution wishes to express its thanks to the following firms who, in the past year, have supplied certain stores for life-boats without charge: Biscuit manufacturers: Huntley and Palmers, Ltd., Read- ing.

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Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.

on the 17th July, 1938, the St.

Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.

of the Head was making signals of distress...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. At noon on ist November, 1965, the weather was rapidly deteriorating and two open cobles were still at sea, so the life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...

Boxing clever: Les Brunskill of Alvaston, Derby, makes bird boxes and sells them for £2.50 each, all of which goes to the RNLI. He has made no fewer than 185 of them so far, at a total value of £462.50. He charges nothing for the... - View image in PDF

For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...