LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A good illustration of how the energies of the young can be harnessed with the encouragement of older members of the R.N.L.I. is the case of Jane and Debra Whiting, aged 10 and 12, of Grimsby, who this year held a garden sale at their home...

THE THREE CORNISHMEN THREE men of Polruan, Mr. Lloyd Dunn, Mr. John Curtis and Mr. Anthony Raymond, have all received letters of thanks from the R.N.L.I. for the parts they played in rescuing four survivors when a dinghy capsized on 7th...

DECEMBER 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.50 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel near the Wallet Spit Buoy was flashing signals and might be in need of help, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden...

MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E. gale was blowing with a rough sea. Then the coxswain saw her drift...

AUGUST 9TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

At 9.15 in the evening the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the south end of Stroma. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas...

Police Sergeant D. H. Carter and Police Constable A. E. Farley, of Bourne- mouth, have each received £5 under the terms of the Ralph Glister Award in recognition of their service in the Bournemouth IRB on 19th May, 1968, to a burning...

THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.

At low tide men have...

An organisation funded totally by voluntary donations has a very special relationship with its friends.

Finding supporters, expanding and staying in touch with the supporter community is vital to the RNLI's future - as...