LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

"About time, Private Medical Insurance that won't increase our premiums simply because we get older" When it comes to medical insurance, Exeter Friendly Society never penalise you with higher premiums simply because you get...

IN the March 1960 number of the Life-boat it was stated on page 381 that the bronze medal for gallantry had been awarded to Mr. Hugh Owen, of the Moelfre, Anglesey, crew. In fact, Mr.

Owen was awarded a second-service clasp...

beautifully as only young Welsh voices can. Both band and choir had to endure an icy wind which astonishingly did not impair their music. An anthem composed specially for the naming ceremony by Trevor Roberts was much appreciated by the...

A look behind the scenes at RNLI (Sales), the company which raises funds for the lifeboat service, and is also responsible for perhaps the most visible of the RNLI's images - its gifts and souvenirsWeall knowabout RNLI (Sales) don't...

The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...

WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.

A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...

WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking... - View image in PDF

THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...