LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dear Editor Further to your recent rescue account from Appledore, I thought your readers might be interested in the attached.

We acquired Boarding Boat 132 in 1994 after nearly 30 years' service at Appledore lifeboat...

REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.

There are five more very touching examples of such service.

A Croydon lady 79 years old has...

THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...

As we plan the rollout of the next generation of crew kit, we review a stylish and practical history of lifeboat looks – from 1824 to the present day

Through driving rain and gale-force winds, our lifeboat crews have been...

LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.

"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...

ONCE AGAIN another year has passed and 1982 has been the best year yet for Shoreline recruiting, due largely to the great support that we have had from our existing members. Our membership now stands at more than 92,000 and I am certain that...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.

Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...

Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...