LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

With the traditional double-ended lifeboat now replaced by fast lifeboats at every one of the Institution's stations RNLI Naval Architect Keith Thatcher takes a look at two of the classes which dominated the Institution's...

About 9 P.M. on the 9th May the wind began to freshen from the north and quickly increased to a whole gale, causing ,a very rough sea. The fishing- boat Harmony, of Eyemouth, was at the j time lying to her nets, and found it impossible to...

The RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards was held in London’s Barbican Centre on 22 May with guest of honour HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She presented the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry to Torbay Coxswain Mark Criddle for his part in...

" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .

I am quite sure that the Guild is a...

1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.

Lifeboats were at sea...

Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...

GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Departure Dates and Prices First Class Rail Travel Zermatti; no of nights in hotel O itinerary stops nHbyrail What's Included First Class rail travel throughout Swiss Travel Pass.

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Thursday, 3rd Sept., 1868. Sir EDWARD PER- ROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...