LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Magazine to be sold on behalf of the Institution.

Dorothy Una Katclifie, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., has very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of the literary and artistic magazine, The Microcosm, to...

WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...

THREE LIFE-BOATS SEARCH FOR PILOT VESSEL Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.31 on the afternoon of the 10th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the Rhyl life-boat had launched to search for the Mostyn pilot vessel, which was...

Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?

Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...

Eastbourne.

AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...

Thurso, Caithness-shire, and Stornoway, Island of Lewis.—16th October. The Latvian steamer Curonia, of Riga, was in distress near Cape Wrath, with her engine broken down. She was able to carry out temporary repairs and made for Scapa Flow....

Warrant Officer T. J. Hudson MBE is shown presenting a cheque for £200 to the President of Plymouth lifeboat station, Vice Admiral Sir Robert Gerken.

The money was raised by WO Hudson's friends and mess mates who... - View image in PDF

A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...