LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

YOUR NEW WEATHER EYE u FROM MARINECALL Lifeboats We at Marinecall have linked up with the RNLI to provide its supporters with a special weather forecast service. It's accurate and easy to use and tailored to your individual needs - and...

YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS.

HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's not because they don't care. They simply...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...

The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...

The Pilgrimage to Dunkirk, 4th June, 1950. By Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R.

THE Margate life-boat Lord South- borough glided down the slipway at eleven in the morning on Saturday, the 3rd of June, to repeat,...

Thursday, 16th April, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., followed by the HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the chair.

Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to H.M. The King for his...

As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....

POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...