LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Institution has approved a proposal to build a new life-boat station at Selsey, Sussex, a quarter of a mile nearer the shore than the existing station. Competitive tenders have been invited. The work will involve the construction of a...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

THE beautiful obverse of this medal, executed by L. C. WYON, Esq., represents the bust of QUEEN VICTORIA, Her Majesty's locks gracefully waving and gathered in a knot behind...

Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...

With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was...

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Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...

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...

TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …

It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...