LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.

For years I have lived alongside a famous...

Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...

Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...

IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...

Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.

—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...

RESCUE OF LIFE BY SWIMMING, AND EXPERIMENTS THEREON.

THE accompanying Paper is translated from some interesting remarks published, under authority, by M. FERRAND, druggist and Member of the Lyons Board of Health. He...

About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th June, 1962, Harry Christopher Duffy, a fourteen-year-old boy, heard two girl swimmers who were in the sea off Lake Pier, Hamworthy, Dorset, shouting. He was canoeing with other members of...

Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.

The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...