LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...

It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from

A person in the water. Fishermen in a...

AFFINITY WITH Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.

Not...

Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...

PAULA FUDGE, Commonwealth gold medalist and holder of the women's 5,000 metres world record, visited Poole headquarters on Friday October 30 to draw the RNLI fifteenth national lottery. Paula gained her record in Norway in 1981, and was...

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL SISTER SHIP ARRIVES Longhope, Orkney. At 8.20 on the morning of the 27th April, 1963, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a trawler appeared to be drifting in the Pentland Firth a mile and a half...

Pier rescue attempt THE CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER of Brighton Palace Pier, Graham Sweetman, was in his office at the shore end of the pier with his part-time colleague Payman Akhaveissy, an Iranian student, at 1615 on the afternoon of Sunday...

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HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE Queen...