LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE have the pleasure of giving a list of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of a Permanent Crew, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His Majesty's Forces...

For 20 years Collectors' Books has offered the pick of yachting books in its twiceyearly brochures. Now a selection is included in The Lifeboat. For every book you order from this advertisement Collectors' Books will donate £2...

Help yourself.... and the R.N.L.I.

Special rates on loans to buy what you want- now! Every loan a RNLI member takes out, under a special arrangement with Mercantile Credit Company Limited, means a welcome donation to the...

We’ve all had to sort through junk mail – a lot of it goes straight in the recycling and some is put aside for that lazy afternoon when we might want to order pizza, a taxi or a window cleaner. Charities send unsolicited mail too but, for...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.

WHEN the...

The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west...

Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...

THE FOURTEENTH International Lifeboat Conference was formally opened by HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden on June 5 in Gothenburg. More than 50 papers on subjects of mutual interest were presented to delegates from 24 lifeboat societies from all...