LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.

A gale was blowing from the...

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...

ST. AGNES, SCILLT ISLANDS. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat establishment at Priglis Bay, St. Agnes, it being considered very desirable to place a second Life-boat on the Scilly Islands. The new boat is...

Annual Meetings.

ALNWICK.—On 15th February, Canon Manby presided in the absence of the Chairman, Sir Francis E. Walker, Bt. The Treasurer's report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, which was carried, showed the...

Joint rescue saves water-skiersOn Saturday, 8 September 2001, three lifeboats, two helicopters and two cliff rescue teams were called out to rescue three people from a speedboat that had capsized in a notoriously dangerous area. The wind was...

CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK 

Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...

It was intended to resume the series of " Honorary Workers of the Institution," in which twelve articles have already been published, the last appearing in TheLifeboat for August, 1927 —with an article on the work of Mr. Ernest...

THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...