LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For teams of RNLI supporters who were game for an adventure and wanted to help raise funds for the lifeboats, all they needed were some crew and some wheels to take part in the RNLI Lifeboat Challenge.The 2001 North East Lifeboat Challenge...

Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...

The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...

Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.

JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....

Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour

Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...

FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...

IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...

IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.

She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...