LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.

Of this...

As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...

Christmas is still a couple of months away, but the Lifeboat would like to remind you of the cards and gifts that are available from the RNLI Sales catalogue and website, and from RNLI shops around the UK and RoI.

The...

FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...

Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was flying distress signals off Tynemouth beach. The life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton...

Active Membership The encouraging start to our 21 st year has continued with 10,315 new adult members recruited in the first five months of 1989, whilst the response to our appeal in the Spring journal for junior membership has been...

To THOMAS PENGILLY, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 10 years as Second Coxswain of the Clovelly Life-boat, a Certificate of Ser- vice and a Pension.

To JOHN W. PLUMMER, on his...

The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.

Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...