LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...

FOR SALE Advertising pencils, superb ball pens, combs, brushes, each gold stamped Life-boat name, etc., raise funds, quickly, easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples. Northern Novelties, Bradford 2 (BD2 3AF).

Fund raising with 200%...

Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.

Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.

Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...

MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Walter Stanley (Jim) Firman, Scarborough tractor driver from 1952 to 1969, after serving as tractor driver helper from 1949 to 1952; during that time he was never known to miss launch or recovery. On his retirement at 65, Jim Firman sold...

St Helena, Ascension Island & Cape Town Relive the classic days of luxury ocean travel Sail aboard the 7,000 ton luxury British cargo liner RMS St Helena.

I Visit beautiful South Atlantic tropical islands - some of the...