LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 144 station life-boats 102 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 89,437 from the Institution's foundation in...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...

By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.

I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...

FOUR WERE STRANDED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 8.10 a.m.

on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men and two boys were stranded on the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. They had secured to the...

The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...

LAST year the Institution received from its Southern Africa Branch £1,500.

Since the branch was established at a meeting in Cape Town in February, 1942, it has contributed £33,000. The first of three motor...

Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 15th of September, 1949, a boat owner reported that his sailing boat Brigand was missing with a man and a woman on board. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...

MAY 5TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At daybreak the motor coble Premier went out to attend to her crab pots.

As the wind and sea were rising the life-boat crew assembled. By early afternoon a strong north-easterly wind was...