LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The autumn 2005 draw was the most successful ever. Thank you! The income for the RNLI was a record-breaking £600,000-plus in just one draw. Thank you to all our readers who participated for helping to make this...

The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...

New Appointments.

THE Viscountess Bertie of Tliame, who has been Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1925, has resigned, owing to the fact that she is now living...

IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...

THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...

Father and son stranded FOUR MINUTES from the time the honorary secretary was alerted, Hastings' 16ftD class inflatable lifeboat was launched, manned by Helmsman Chris Cooper and Crew Members Graham Furness and Steven Martin. It was 1604...

Greater London.

Life-boat stand at the Sea-roamers' Ex- hibition, at Messrs. Selfridge's.

BARNET.—Mrs. Ellicott appointed joint honorary secretary.

BATTERSEA. — Branch reorganized...

Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place

Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...