LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PERHAPS the widely-spread belief amongst our sailors in the existence of a sweet little cherub, whose peculiar mission it is to sit up aloft, and keep watch for the life of poor Jack, is one of the reasons why poor Jack takes such very...

There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...

FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...

THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...

WHEREIN LIES the essence of good public relations? Who better to ask than Patrick Howarth, for more than a quarter of a century public relations officer of the RNLI? His answer is predictably clear-cut and to the point: 'First of all in...

MR. GRANT UDEN has achieved the con- siderable feat of telling the story of the life-boat service in a book of less than ninety pages, which yet includes numer- ous photographs of life-boats, a map of life-boat stations, several charts and...

TYROLEAN WINTER BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Trove/ with the UK's hading specialist in holidays by rail on this sensational 10-day holiday to the snow covered mountains of the Austrian Tyrol.

A friendly and professional Tour...

On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...