LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 7TH. - THE HUMBER , YORKSHIRE. A steamer had run aground, but she had a pilot on board and did not need the life-boat. - Permanent paid crew ; rewards, 6s.

Millie Crangle is a 9-year-old RNLI supporter and the daughter of volunteer Crew Member Mark. Last year, she took on the Junior Great North Run to help save lives at sea – raising over £400 and
running 4km. Millie says: ‘It...

FOR THE PAST YEAR members of the staff of HM Prison Dartmoor and a number of the inmates have combined in a voluntary stamp scheme to help the RNLI. Used British and foreign postage stamps have been collected, sorted, graded, made up into...

Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.

Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...

Mr. George Mason of the Cross Keys Hotel, Llandudno, filled his bar counters with daffodils on St. David's Day and asked all those who took one to make a contribution in the life-boat collecting box.

* * * * The girls...

London: Modern lifeboats formed the theme of the RNLI displays at the London International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 6 to 16. Although in a quiet area, our stand was, as always, the meeting place for many lifeboat friends old and...

AT THE TIME of writing we have over 12,000 subscribing members and new enrolments average 12 per working day.

Already subscriptions are making a worthwhile addition to the funds required by the RNLI. Our aim is to reach a...

Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...