LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat honorary secre- tary saw a motor fishing vessel driving towards the north breakwater. At 4.20 the life-boat White Star was launched and made...

IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...

Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.

Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...

Off the Cornish coast: The Lizard-Cadgwith's 52ft Barnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No 33) on exercise with a Wessex helicopter from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose.

photograph by courtesy of RNAS... - View image in PDF

On 14 May 2007, yachtsman and powerboater Geoff Holt was leaving the Hamble river in Hampshire in his aptly named trimaran Freethinker. After months of planning, he had begun the public phase of climbing his ‘personal Everest’ – being the...

'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...

confer the decoration of the Albert Medal of the second class on Sub-lieutenant LIONEL ANDROS DE SAUSMAREZ, R.N., of Her Ma- jesty's ship Myrmidon. The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been...

The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.

There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...