LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The new inshore lifeboat IB 1 (below) will be a development of the existing D class but will use the latest advances in material and equipment technology.. - View image in PDF

JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...

ON the 26th of March, three Army officers from Dover, members of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club, set sail in a yacht for Margate. Just after four in the afternoon they were seen by the shore attendant attempting to enter Ramsgate harbour. He...

Congratulations Once again RNLI supporters excelled themselves with the Lifeboat Lottery. The spring 2005 Lottery was the RNLI's highest earning Lottery ever, raising over £557,000. Many thanks to all of you who purchased tickets...

Other plans for the immediate future are improved caterpillar tractors and carriages for launching, loud-hailers in a hundred life-boats of the larger types, and watertight wireless sets, so that all life-boats, and not only those, as at...

THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...

As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...