LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...

Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...

Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Read letters from the...

Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...

How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution

Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually  welcome enthusiastic...

Thursday, llth Sept., 1862.—Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...

IN the Life-boat Journal for November, 1895, the development of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION'S fleet is traced for the twenty-two years which elapsed between 1850, when the Society had got into regular working order, and...

LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...