LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...

Stag rescued after cliff plunge The British are proud of being a nation of animal lovers. Only here would a major rescue operation be mounted to save a wild animal. But as a deer was finally pulled to safety after a 5 hour ordeal, everyone...

Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …

'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....

A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.

BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...

The schoooner Happy Return, which left Sunderland with coals, was sometime since towed into Dundee by the Hull steamer Queen, with only one hand (a lad named WILLIAM CHARLTON) on board. It seems that after leaving Sun- derland, the schooner...

FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...

DECEMBER 13TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 4.20A.M. a telephone message was received from the naval authorities at Dover, through the Lade coastguard, that three of H.M. tank landing vessels were in...

Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...