LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

of the most important features in the original organization of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it—was to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from shipwreck on...

Young talent: this painting was adjudged the winner out of 7,000 entries in a young people's competition organised by Sealink British Ferries as part of last summer's Safe at Sea appeal which raised £150,000 towards a new... - View image in PDF

THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult...

SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) WORK.

The Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...

Obituary It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: November Mrs Pat Lang, membership secretary and wife of the chairman of Totton branch. Mr and Mrs Lang both joined the branch in 1975, a year after the branch was formed....

Every child has their heroes. For James ‘Suds’ Sutherland they were footballers and lifeboat crew. So when ‘Suds’, a lifelong Celtic supporter with strong family links to the RNLI, died of a brain tumour in 2015, his friends found the...

THE MOVE of the depot from Boreham Wood to Poole was completed on October 1, 1976. Last to come was the machinery; within a fortnight of removal day it was in full operation on the new site.

The RNLI's first storeyard...