LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...

A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...

TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.

There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...

TO MARK THE FRIENDSHIP and mutual goodwill shown during the bicentennial celebrations of the American Declaration of Independence a number of leading Americans in Britain have decided to appeal to their fellow citizens to provide a new...

THE Fastnet race—famous among yachtsmen the world over for its tough course of over 600 miles from Cowes to round the Fastnet rock off the south-west of Ireland—is contested only by strong and experienced crews. This year there were nearly...

As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?

When a warm afternoon turned to cool...

MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.

INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...

Thursday, 23rd August, 1934.

Paid £18,054 10s. 5d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, includ- ing rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...