LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...

French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...

Happy families There are no prizes for spotting the most recent change to our advertisement for enrolment into the RNLI Membership Scheme. There is no need for 'Family Membership' now, as children can become Storm Force members in...

Books The Lone Ranger story – from salvage tug to super yacht by John Julian Published by Seafarer Books ISBN 0955024307 Price £19.95 hardback This is the remarkable story of a vessel’s transformation over a period of more than 30 years...

Ix the gales of last November, and again in January of this year, the Dutch Life-boat Service did magnificent work, but, like our own Service, it suffered heavy loss.

The same terrible gales which struck our own coasts...

WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SHOREHAM HARBOUR NOVEMBER 16TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Just after one in the morning the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn went out to the help of the minesweeper President Briand. A strong south wind...

The MasterChef winner on childhood summers in Dorset, writing a cookbook, and being known as Winklewoman

What was it like being on MasterChef?
It was surreal – that’s the only way I can explain it. You know when... - View image in PDF