LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two magnificent efforts by children in Ipswich have raised enough money to buy 112 sets of ear defenders for lifeboat crews. The top three classes ofWhitehouse Infants School hoped to raised £100 with a sponsored spell; they actually... - View image in PDF

IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.

There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...

Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.

Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...

LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.

Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...

• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.

Should an organisation so...

DAILY EXPRESS I N T E R N A T O N A 23rd 1989 *? ' -a* Following its highly successful debut ID Plymouth, the Daily Express West of England Boat Show has moved lo the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order (o expand the market for...

What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains

‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...

Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.

THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.