LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By a Life-boat Worker of Twenty-five Years' Experience.

Now that the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has been formed and many new members are being enrolled who are not yet acquainted with the methods which the...

AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.

Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SHOREHAM HARBOUR NOVEMBER 16TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Just after one in the morning the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn went out to the help of the minesweeper President Briand. A strong south wind...

DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddon- ness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the...

ELSEWHERE in this issue will be found full accounts of services performed by the Life-boats at Lowestoft, Gorles- ton, Spurn and Stromness, for each of which the Committee have made special awards of the Institution's medals for...

IN bringing this book to the notice of the readers of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, it is felt that no apology is necessary on account of the subject not being one purely relating to Life-boats. The two volumes, which are adopted by the Victoria...

ABERDOVEY, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABER- SOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE ; ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE ; GHIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE ; LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX ; RLIOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY ; SIIOREHAM, SUSSEX ; ST.

AGNES, SCILLY ISLANDS ; SOUTHEND, CAXTYRE ;...

The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, looks back at 1997 and at the Institution's plans for 1998 Although one of our principle challenges must be for the RNLI to be administered in a modern, businesslike and efficient way we should never...