LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...

IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.

In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...

THIS year is the centenary of the death of Lionel Lukin, whose name will always be remembered as one of the originators of the idea of the life-boat. He was a fashionable and successful coach builder in London, and Master of the Worshipful...

At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th January the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore near the harbour. A whole N.W. by N. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with Mr. Moncas, the branch secretary, on board, put...

When cargo ship Red Duchess’s engines failed in severe gales her crew were helpless to stop her drifting towards the rocky shore of the Isle of Rum …

Tuesday 2 November 2010 was what’s known...

Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...

" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...

• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...