LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jon Jones, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, looks at the work of George Rawlinson, Divisional Inspector {Dl) of lifeboats for the South .

The title 'inspector' had always caused me to form a mental image in...

LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...

WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...

WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...

Diver, journalist and DIY convert Monty Halls tells Rory Stamp why he chose the simple life – and why he will always be grateful to the RNLI

When I step into Monty’s small Bristol office, I’m confronted with a toothy grin...

1st July. T. WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.

At a Special General Meeting of the Institution, convened pursuant to advertisement, confirmed the alterations in the Rules and Regulations as adopted at the previous Special...

AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...

By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.

[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...