LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fund-raising branches and guilds throughout the country had very good results last year. Dundee branch increased its total by nearly 50 per cent to reach £15,800. the ladies' guild contributing £8,000 towards this sum; the...

Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.

He was awarded the Thanks...

Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.

A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...

Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...

When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck

On 22 February...

SPEAKING AT the annual general meeting of the RNLI last April, Major-General Ralph Farrant, Chairman of the Committee of Management, made it quite clear that, whatever economies might be necessary in these days of inflation, the first...

ALL SPICK AND SPAN • I should like to record my appreciation and thanks for THE LIFE-BOAT which reaches me from time to time. It is full of interest and having absorbed the contents I circulate it around my ship.

It is...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1870, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...