LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...

It is a comfort to know . . .

On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...

Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...

Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 6.40 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Rose Crest was in difficulties with engine trouble south of...

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...

Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...

THE VAST OPEN SPACES of the hull interior gradually disappear as work continues at William Osborne's yard on the internal structure of the 37' 6" Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.

In the...

THIRTY-NINE Christmases ago in Forest Row, a little Sussex village nearly 30 miles from its nearest lifeboat, the village postman, Billy Mills, joined two local church choirs together to go carol singing to raise money for the RNLI.