LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....

WE wish to draw the attention of all readers of The Life-boat to a song called " The Life-boatman," the words and music of which have been written by Mr. Louis Drakeford. This song is being published, under the auspices of the...

THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...

DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...

Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.

Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...

Thursday, 5th Nov. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them

With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...