LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Letters (from page 208) as crew, was out on service for If hours.

First she towed to safety two fishing dinghies, both with swamped outboard engines and both with four people aboard; one was taken to the weather shore at...

August storms TWO DEEPENING DEPRESSIONS sweeping in from the Atlantic last summer within a few days of each other brought with them first, on August 9, severe gales with storm force gusts and then, on the night of August 13 and 14, storm...

The RNLI has been developing its policy of formal training for lifeboatmen since the early 1970s — Here Capt.

GEORGE COOPER RD, MNI, RNR, Deputy Chief of Operations, discusses the value of training with those who received...

There's fury in the tempest, and there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, the headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull like...

THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...

Most of the RNLI’s UK supporters boost their donations by using Gift Aid, which allows the charity to claim back the basic rate tax that donors have already paid on donations. This brings in a very large amount indeed (about £4M...

The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...

Miss Mackie-Campbell of Stonefield, Argyll, organised an equestrian day and designated the RNLI as a halfbeneficiary.

The event had to be postponed owing to atrocious weather, but in spite of this, when held soon afterwards...