LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI lifeguards were busy throughout Summer 2010 and, for those in north Cornwall, the most challenging day came right at the end of the season

Fine weather attracted thousands of Bank Holiday...

THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.

During every summer, distressing ac- counts...

The Record of North Sunderland and Stromness.

IN anarticlein The Lifeboat for November, 1925, on the centenary of the Appledore Station we gave the remarkable record of the present Committee, five members of which had...

New Chairman visits Poole headquarters The new Chairman of the RNLI, Mr Michael Vernon, visited the Institution's headquarters and depot at Poole on 31 August, to meet members of staff and talk to a number of station honorary secretaries...

Persona Time of rescued from 1050. launching. shipwreck.

Jan. 5. 8.50 p.m. "I S.S. Turquoise, of Glasgow. Workington life-boat stood by „ 6. 11.15a.m. / vessel.

ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...

Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.

ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...

ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.

Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...