LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Introduce a friend With this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is a leaflet entitled 'Introduce a friend'.

We hope you will pass this leaflet on to a friend, neighbour or perhaps relative, who may interested in supporting the...

Books RMS Queen Mary: 101 questions and answers about the great transatlantic liner By David Ellery, published by Conway ISBN 1844860337 Price: £9.99 (plus p&p) hardback David Ellery's engaging text is structured into bite-sized...

Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...

As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...

NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....

THE life-boat service broke two records in 1938. Its life-boats were launched to the rescue more often, and they saved or helped to save from destruction more boats and vessels, than ever before in its history of 115 years.

In his report on the past year's work at the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, which is given on page 70, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., the Chairman, described the past year as one of outstanding success in the...

The summarised reports on this page concern services for which letters of commendation and thanks from Lt Cmdr Brian Miles, as deputy director/ chief of operations, have been sent to the stations and/or personnel...