LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.

It might...

SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...

THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...

Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...

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THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...

THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...

WITH THE placing of an order for two new steel life-boats, the first of their kind, the R.N.L.I.'s major programme of new construction has been significantly advanced. The two new boats, which are each 50 feet in length, are being built...