LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man fishing at Plemont had heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in difficulty close to...

THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...

SPEAKING AT the annual general meeting of the RNLI last April, Major-General Ralph Farrant, Chairman of the Committee of Management, made it quite clear that, whatever economies might be necessary in these days of inflation, the first...

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

AN important extension of the Institu- tion's practice of encouraging rescues by shore-boats was put into effect in the summer of 1962 by the Institution in conjunction with the Ministry of Trans- port. Its purpose is to make wider and...

By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.

Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...

THURSDAY, 5th May, 1881.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.E.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre-...

Fund raisers on the Isle of Anglesey stepped up their efforts last year and increased their income from £ 1 1 .(XX) in 1977 to £15,(XX) in 1978. Part of this increase was made possible by the gift of two water colours painted and...