LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...

Two sponsored lunch-hour knit-ins by RNLl Headquarters staff at Poole raised £44. One was held near the caravan on the quay; the other, due to rain, in the office. Knitters were sponsored by other members of staff and their families;... - View image in PDF

READERS of The Life-Boat will not need to be reminded of the efforts which the Institution has made during the last two years to call attention to the failure of the shipping community of Great Britain to give adequate support to the...

The Norfolk Coast is the title of a little book by Neville Long which is published by Geoffrey Dibb Ltd., of Brundall, Norfolk, price 6s. 5d. including postage. Mr. Long, who is up to date with his facts, writes: 'So these chapters have...

Partners at the Show More than 10,000 people queued at the RNLI stand at the Southampton Boat Show in September 2004. They were able to see the technology used to save lives at sea on a Severn class lifeboat.

Two of the...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire. — At 8.45, on the evening of the 25th of September, 1950, the lighthouse keeper reported a message that a member of the crew of the new tanker London Pride, which was carrying out trials, was in need of hospital...

Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...

HOLYHEAD.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. by W., and a very heavy sea on the 20th January, the No. 2 Lifeboat Joseph Whitworth was called out by signals of distress exhibited by two vessels lying in the outer anchorage which were...