LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Institution's income was the largest it has ever been. It was £356,320.

That was £72,168 more than in 1939, and this splendid increase was almost entirely due to the increase of £63,749 in...

The new B class lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Scottish Highlands, has been named Spirit of Fred. Olsen. She is pictured after her naming ceremony, being taken from the station to the water for a display.

The...

OCTOBER 8TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 8.25 at night the coastguard reported that the motor boat Secret, of Littlehaven, with three on board, had left Littlehaven in the morning for Milford Haven and had not arrived. A second message...

AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 5.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane was down half a mile from the coastguard station, and that the crew had baled out. She was a Halifax.

Twenty-five minutes...

OCT. 29TH . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. The Aberdeen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 15th October, 1939, and the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the following day.<...

South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...

Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...

Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.

THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...