LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...

Tuesday, 6th May, 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 18th day of March, 1862, The Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, The following Report of the...

Coverack, Cornwall.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1953, a local resident reported that he could see a yacht between two and three miles off Coverack flying two flags at her masthead. At 4.23 the life-boat The Three Sisters...

OCTOBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. An American tug had been reported in distress, and an escort vessel had been sent out, but later it was reported that everything was normal and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £18 10s....

A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...

NOVEMBER 5TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. An Admiralty motor launch was in difficulties with her engine broken down, but she got in unaided. - Rewards, £18 19s. 6d..

THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.

can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...