LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ifeline Legacies are a vital element of the RNLI's funding, particularly for long-term capital expenditure. With signs of a decline in this source of income we examine the ways in which a legacy can indeed offer a lifeline to casualties...

WE have received within the last few weeks the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1889, issued from the Government Printing Office at Washington, the Service being a...

Wedding Day Shout

As Lough Swilly Crew Member Francy Burns took the microphone for his wedding speech, his bride-to be, Helen, was surprised to hear the sound of a pager instead of the traditional declarations of love....

Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from...

Boy rescued TWO PEOPLE IN THE SEA at Rocky Valley, Bossiney, near Tintagel, 6.7 miles from Port Isaac, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Port Isaac lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1326 on Monday August 14,...

IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.

On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...

In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat

Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...