LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

Crew member ensures safe berth

‘It was a truly amazing experience for us’

As a Courtmacsherry Harbour...

Last March Hayling Island station branched raised £1,008 with a ball Sinah Warren in aid of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal which was well supported by Islanders, by members of local sailing clubs and by members of neighbouring...

JANUARY 22ND. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11.10 A.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be sent to a position three miles N. by W. of Margate, where an aeroplane’s yellow rubber dinghy had been seen. A S.W. wind was blowing,...

Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.

It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...

On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was in distress about three miles 8. of Mang- hold Head, during a S.E. wind on the 5th Oct. 1886, the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched at about 8.30 A.M., and was towed...

THE Institution has decided to fit Aqualite L.20 automatic lights on all life-jackets in use in the service.

Trials of this lighting device have been carried out at twelve life-boat stations since April, 1960. The lights...