LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, 1939, the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat...

New Year Message from the Chairman, Commander F. R. H. Swann, QBE, RNVR...

0 One hundred and fifty years ago Sir William Hillary laid down six rules for his new Society of which the first and most important was the...

AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...

Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 3.35 p.m.

on 14th September, 1966, three men were reported stranded on the Blasket Islands.

There was a westerly gale with a very rough sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Rowland...

FILEY.—The fishing-coble Lionel being observed in danger, while a strong gale, was blowing from the W., accompanied by a rough sea, on the 6th March, the reserve Life-boat, temporarily placed here while the station's Boat was being...

Thirty-five years back • Reading the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT brings back memories of, incredibly, nearly 35 years ago. Memories of those hectic days may have become a bit mixed up by the passage of time, but I think it was in the autumn...

The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...

Otley All Saints First School Storm Force group was started more than two years ago and has a regular membership of more than 40, aged between four and eight years.

They meet once a month or so to learn about the RNLI, to... - View image in PDF