LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.

Several hundred...

IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...

Thursday, 5th December, 1861. THOMAS CHAPHAN, Esq., F.B.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

Twenty-four crews from guide and scout groups in Northampton took part in a rowing relay along the River Nenefrom Northampton to Peterborough, a distance of 60.3 miles, with 22 locks to negotiate. The first crew (above) were sent on their... - View image in PDF

THE subject for the ninth Life-boat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools, held this year, was, " What are the qualities which make the Lifeboatman an example of good citizenship ? " So far as the quality of the essays was...

WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....

Our cover photo and the images in our piece about Shetland life were made by Jack Lowe using a Victorian process called wet plate collodion

Jack plans to visit all 237 RNLI crews as part of the Lifeboat Station Project,...

AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...