LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

1998 saw two historic lifeboats return to the water - and both most appropriately in the area where they served as active lifeboats.

At Beinhridge the Coxswain of the current lifeboat Martin Woodward, saw years of tenacity...

IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...

FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....

THE commerce of the world has increased, and is increasing so rapidly, and especially that of this great commercial nation, that the danger of collision between the innumerable ships that are passing and repassing each other, and crossing...

Dressed for the job...

Suitably attired, for the lifeboat if not for their surroundings, youngsters four-year-old Lucie Polwin, her brother Ben (10) and sister Hannah (8) (right), helped their parents on flag day in... - View image in PDF

Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.

Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...

AT twenty-five minutes past midnight •on the 26th January, 1954, a Washington aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber Command, bound for the Azores, wirelessed that she was in difficulties through icing and that her crew of seven were baling out. The...