LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Denied credit during his lifetime, Lionel Lukin has since been acknowledged as 'the first who built a Life Boat'. To commemorate the inventor's 250th birthday last May, assistant public relations officer Robin Sharp relates the...

Sir William's name lives on in the shape of the latest Douglas lifeboat, the 1988-built Tyne class Sir William Hillary. - View image in PDF

5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...

In the children's programme 'Blue Peter' on B.B.C. television on 8th June an appeal was made to help provide replacement rescue craft for the four 'Blue Peter' inshore life-boats which are stationed at Littlehampton,...

coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...

/)t/0 CENTURY MAP ~ today & 100 years ago Centred on your home This exciting map gives you the unique opportunity to see Ordnance Survey" Victorian First Edition (circa 1880) and current Landranger" maps centred on your home,...

PLYMOUTH, JULY 19. A brilliant day with the sun beating down on a cluster of white marquees in West Hoe Park, close by the sea; an atmosphere of cheerful expectancy; flags flying; the Royal Marine Band breaking into the gaiety of...

Invest in one of this country's Top Performing Unit Trusts and help to pay for a new R.N.L.I. Lifeboat.

PROFESSIONAL FUND MANAGERS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD Investing in M.L.A. General Trust means you will be able to...