LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At two o'clock on the morning of the llth of September, 1960, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Swedish steamer Arnold Bratt, which would make...

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obeerm.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...

you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the... - View image in PDF

Ivy Griffiths St Davids ladies guild president.

FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.

The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...

THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...

To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...

THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...