LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 4 Lives rescued 7 ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 1.3 in the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1945, the naval officer in charge at Stranraer reported that an Anson aeroplane was in the sea in Luce Bay, five miles from the Mull...

Mechanics down tools to pick winners Lifeboatmen attending a five-day mechanical and engineering course in Poole took time out of their busy schedule to draw the winning tickets for the Autumn lifeboat lottery in...

AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...

The "Splendid" Poor.

LIFE-BOAT Day was held throughout Greater London on 20th May, except in Baling, where it was held on 27th September. The Day was organized by the Central London Women's Com- mittee of...

How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...

Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.

ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...

Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.

Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...

BY the death on 13th August, at the age of 79, of the Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, P.O., a Vice-President of the Institution and the Chairman of its Committee of Management for twelve years, the Life-boat Service lost a generous friend...