LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...

Mr. C. J. H. Thornhill, of Stanbrook and Thornhill, Holland Street, London, writes: I have kept a life-boat collecting box on my yacht (a smack built in 1894) for a year and during that period, by merely rattling it around the crew at...

Mrs. Manby, of Codsall, Stafford- shire, will be glad to receive from honorary secretaries of stations the photographs 'which they promised to send her of the presentations of her scarf-helmets..

Sidney Triggs, a member of the life-boat crew at Hoylake, and now a leading-torpedoman in the Navy, has been awarded the British Empire Medal. He is one of seven brothers of whom three are in the Navy; one is about to enter the Navy; two are...

A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.

My...

Phillip Arthur May, a crew member of Padstow lifeboat for 27 years, serving as emergency mechanic from 1952 to 1972..

Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...

(Below) Mayor of Lambeth, Councillor Hugh Chambers, presents a cheque for £2,235 to Michael Ashley, RO (South London), while the Mayoress looks on. This impressive sum was raised by junior school children throughout the Borough of... - View image in PDF