LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...

Lives rescued by life-boats Lives rescued by inshore rescue boats Lives rescued in other ways for whose rescue the Institution gave rewards Total lives rescued 354 10 224 588 People landed by life-boats and inshore rescue boats from...

The financial solutions company Foresters is lending a helping hand to this year’s SOS Day by sponsoring fundraising material for schools. Mailings, SOS champion packs for Storm Force members and a host of online downloads hope to encourage...

JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...

To BENJAMIN MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 7 years as Second Coxswain and 3 years as Coxswain of the North Berwick Life-boat, a Pension.

To JOHN MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving 11 1/2 years as Second...

1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.

Lifeboats were at sea...

SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.

It was a day which...

THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1875 : His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...