LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Summer winners Thank you to all of you who supported the RNLI summer 2005 Lifeboat Lottery, which raised over £470,000.

The first prize, an 18-day Mediterranean cruise, was won by Mr Head from Middlesex....

Most admirable service was also per- formed on the morning of the 16th Oct. by the Walmer Life-boat Centurion, as will be seen by the report furnished by the Coxswain of the Life-boat as follows.

He says, " It was...

WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...

SEPT. 14TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...

THE Thirtieth Annual Meeting of this most bene- volent Institution was held at Burdett Hall, Lime- house, on the 11th June, the DUKE OF MARL- BOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.

Amongst the company present...

At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...

A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.

She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...

Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...