LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.

Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...

The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast

It’s the end of a blustery October day in...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...

THE Prince of Wales gave yet another proof of his deep personal interest in the work of the Institution and its Branches when he visited Bradford on 13th November. His visit was for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the Chamber of...

MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.

In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...

A matter of training How does the RNLI ensure that its lifeboat crews are ready to cope with any emergency that might come up? went to the inshore training centre at Cowes to find out.If you are ever unfortunate enough to run into trouble at...

THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...

A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...