LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

'When we're needed—we're needed! And when we're needed, we'll be there!' THESE WORDS of a Swanage coxswain, logged in the station history, are a promise this little Dorset town has been proud to fulfil. Opening the...

Mr. John Fisher has had the interesting idea of assembling in Storms (Adlard Coles, 15/-) accounts of some of the greatest storms in history. They include the great gales of 1703, when 8,000 men and women were reported to have been drowned...

IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.

It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.

The sun was...

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JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...

SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...

Mr. John R. Barnett, who lives at West Meon, nr. Petersfield, Hampshire, has been appointed Assistant Secretary (Finance) of the R.N.L.I. An Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Mr. Barnett, who has held work study posts, was...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...