LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...

NEWSPOINT What would Sir William Hillary have thought about the day when Rye Harbour lifeboat rescued 29 children and adults from inflatable toys on a hot summer's day earlier this year (see Lifeboat Services)? When he founded the RNLI...

THE ROYAL EVENT OF 1993 The 40th anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth IPs Coronation The Coronation D rv Plate Limited Edition 5000 The 2nd of June 1953 will always be remembered as the day H.M. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster...

Hammering away...

The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.

Several hundred autographs have been received at...

Active Membership The encouraging start to our 21 st year has continued with 10,315 new adult members recruited in the first five months of 1989, whilst the response to our appeal in the Spring journal for junior membership has been...

A roaring success

The Bikers Cove, neighbours and friends of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a custom bike show at the end of July – and it was certainly a 'triumph'. Over 400 bikers from all over...

In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...

Below The size of the latest boathouse reconstruction at Angle was one of the benchmarks when considering the new slipway class. In the event a lifeboat size was chosen which would fit in half of the existing houses - leaving Angle with... - View image in PDF