LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHEN I arrived at Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, night was falling. Down on the fish pier lights twinkled as the wind, the restless wind, tugged at lamp fittings. Sand, like powdered snow, drifted along the promenade, and the wind...

Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...

A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF

LIFEBOAT AREA No.10 Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on...

(Left) Stuart Crystal chalice made for RNLI 150th anniversary in limited numbered edition of150. One panel, etched and engraved, depicts Henry Greathead's Original lifeboat, with, on reverse, the RNLI crest and dates... - View image in PDF

In days gone by. . .

I thought readers may be interested to see this old photograph, taken around 1916, of girls collecting for the lifeboats.

My mother, Lillian (nee) Bosworth, is the girl on the right... - View image in PDF

THE Institution has received an anony- mous parcel containing twenty-nine gold sovereigns and twenty-four half- sovereigns, packed in cotton wool, many of them with Queen Victoria's head"..

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