LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called into Queensferry Lifeboat Station on 22 June. He was shown around the station, introduced to the crew and presented with a framed photo of Queensferry’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Donald and Ethel Macrae...

APRIL 22ND. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

Seven men had been washed overboard from a destroyer at night in a whole gale, but they could not be found. - Rewards : Thurso, £13 18s. ; Longhope, £14...

HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, is pictured talking to (from left to right) crew member John Gorman, and Helmsmen Geraint Wheeler, Tom Ridgway, Sandro James and Cliff Bates all of Aberystwyth during a two day tour of Cardigan... - View image in PDF

THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...

Going, going, gone. A bottle full of coins and notes for the lifeboats comes under the hammer at the Lord Burleigh, Victoria, London.

Landlord Fred Bright (r.) is a keen supporter of the RNLI who always has a giant bottle... - View image in PDF

OCT. 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea but the life-boat found nothing. - Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 9s..

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION ""I*?: The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat...