LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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 portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Cross, of the life-boat station on the Humber. Coxswain Cross joined the crew in 1906, when the station, which was then known as the Spurn station, was under the control of the Humber...

WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...

Diana has a sense of humour. As we pull onto her drive she’s standing on the threshold of her Hampshire home laughing at our attempts to park. ‘Mind my rockery,’ she jokes, indicating she doesn’t give two hoots about her...

HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...

What’s the best way to beat the January blues? Why, to hit the January sales of course!

If you shop online, use Give as you Live and the retailer will make a donation of up to 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI. It costs...

THE Glasgow Branch has received ten guineas from the Captain and Crew of the motor-ship Cape York of the Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow. Before passing round the Institution's collecting-book the Captain wrote in it a special appeal in...

THE weekend of 15th/16th August, 1970, was the busiest the life-boat service has known in its entire history. Winds of force 10 or more were blowing, and there was a spate of activity by both life-boats and inshore rescue boats, par-...