LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...

SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...

Celebration challenge London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.

The Yamaha/RNLI challenge saw Lakeside staff competing against their retail rivals in a...

LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...

Dial 999 for fire, police, ambulance, life-boat.

Those words on the cover of the Jersey telephone directory, in large type, caught my eye soon after I landed on the island. They sum up very neatly the efficient way in which...

There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...

AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...

Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.

They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...