LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Irish Division Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were...

at , by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, gt all to whom these Presents shall come Whereas the late SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, Baronet; the late MR. THOMAS WILSON, Member of...

On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...

THURSDAY, 4th June, 1908.

Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

177,238 269 31,696 9,716 41,106 12,253 1,913 2.895 58,167 2,832 55~335 4,180 12,580 995 452 2,832 21,039 18,763 27,073 26 45,862 42,263 10,376 44,092 851 798 56,117 22,177 4,315 267 26.759 10,656 806 102,807 8,338 4,771 7,188 1,840 136,406...

a r o u n d and about t h e RNLI Commissioned to choose the winners! Winners of the RNLI's 53rd national lottery were drawn on 30 April by Robin Guthrie, Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.

Mr Guthrie, who...

A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.

J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...

The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...