LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...

The RNLI’s historic archive has been recognised by UNESCO. Our founding documents, which date back to 1823, will become one of just 50 listed in the UK as part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme UK Register, preserving the world’s...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952. a local man telephoned that he had seen two trawlers off Ness Battery, one of which appeared to be in diffi- culties. The life-boat honorary secre- tary and...

Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...

The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.

AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...

Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...

It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...

THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...