LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NORTH SUNDERLAND. — While the fishing-boats were out on the 13th February, the sea became so heavy that the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1 P.M., and assisted six of the boats to enter the harbour in safety..

THROUGH the kindness of the organizers of the annual Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, held at Olympia last September, the Institution was given free space for a life-boat exhibit for the fortnight during which the exhibition...

On the afternoon of the 25th of November the Dover, Kent, life-boat, while taking part in a television pro- gramme, took in tow the local motor boat Mayflower. Details of the service are given on page 382.—Rewards to the crew, £8...

British marine artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century helped the life-boat service in the latter half of the twentieth century through an exhibition of their paintings at the gallery of N. R. Omell, of Duke Street, St. James's,...

When an American aeroplane came down in the sea near Caister the coxswain and other regular members of the crew were away, but ex-Coxswain Charles Lacock, aged 73, took command, three soldiers helped to make up the crew, and the life-boat...

The annual meeting will be held in the Central Hall Westminster, on Thursday, October 25th, and the Duchess of Kent will present the eight gold medals which the Institution awarded during the war to life-boat coxswains for conspicuous...

The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp

Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....

SINCE 1875 the Institution has maintained a Life-boat Station at Staithes, in Yorkshire, and its Life-boats have rescued 56 lives from shipwreck. In 1922, however, the Institution was compelled to close it, as there was considerable...