LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...

South East Division Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at...

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• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...

WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...

Gardner engines have to be good Lives depend on them.

That is why men of the R.N.L.I, deserve the very best in equipment— like the Oakley-designed self-righting lifeboat "The Earl and Countess Howe", powered by...

OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE Queen...

THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...