LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.

The accounts of the lifeboat services in...

The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.

WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...

On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...

K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.

He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.

Half an...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At two o'clock on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore five miles north of Portpatrick.

The life-boat Jeanie Speirs...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...

Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.

Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...