LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence

If walls could speak, those of old...

IN former numbers of this Journal we have had occasion to point out that the use of the means at hand, in case of shipwreck, although of the rudest and simplest form, may by a little ingenuity and presence of mind, often prove of service in...

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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...

In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...

ALL agree that the past year was one of unusual difficulty for any engaged in charitable enterprise. No good work, whatever its character or scope, can be carried on without money, and to obtain this necessary commodity in a sufficient...

Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...

.—On the even- ing of the 9th April the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in diffi- culties one mile S.W. of Clacton pier, and the motor life-boat Edward Z.

Dresden was launched at 7.45 P.M. A light N.W. breeze was...

Thursday, 14th January, 1915.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read the minutes of the Building,...