LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.

The players at these tables...

ANY changes in the composition of the fleet of Life-boats under the management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION must always be a subject of considerable interest to those whose business it is to study the question of the best type...

Mam photo top - Visitors form an orderly queue for the RNLI walk-through roadshow. - View image in PDF

Little Sophie Ramster looks rather overawed by the size of the task ahead of her in crossing the Shard Bridge! Photo Blackpool Evening Gazette. - View image in PDF

H.M. THE KING and ELM. The Queen both seat special gifts in November last to show their interest in the pro- gress of the Motor Life-boat Scheme.

* * * * The 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have sent...

On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.

North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...

AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...