LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, concludes his report from the 1995 International Lifeboat Conference with a look at the development of new lifeboats around the world and initiatives to improve safety at sea There...

Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...

LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....

Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.

I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...

INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW Three hundred and twenty-one new members enrolled at the Association desk at the International Boat Show. This was an encouraging start for the New Year and it was particularly gratifying to note that over 80 per cent...

Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...

The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...