LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 11.30 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the RAF. that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea opposite the South Promenade, about five miles west, and the motor life-boat Sarah...

FOR the last four months the Life-boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have been busily endeavour- ing to maintain in 1902 the grand record of net receipts obtained by the Fund throughout the United Kingdom last year for the...

Harrow County School, Middlesex, in April got sponsors for ''bar billiards'.

Five boys played billiards continually for 72 hours, thereby breaking the world record for this type of event. At the time it was...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...

IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...

THERE were 269 stations in this Life- saving Service at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1900, this total being 4 in excess of that for the previous year. Of this number (269) 194 were situated on the Atlantic and...

ONE lesson which has emerged from the large deficit incurred last year is that the R.N.L.I. not only needs more money; it needs money from new sources. The work of the voluntary branches will always be the mainstay of the Institution's...

AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? IF you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to Fund the RINLI with every transaction you make.