LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" MAN the life-boat!" Thus the voices hoarsely sounding through the night Rouse to action those who, fearless, brave the elements to fight.

Fight for what? For home? For beauty? Riches ? Rank ? The warrior's...

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to be the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...

The first steps inside the new National Collection of lifeboats tell you that this is something very special. Here, for the first time anywhere in the world, the history of a nation's lifeboats and the men who took them to sea is laid...

Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.

But their mood changed when the wind...

Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.

The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...

From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...

The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...

• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...

Ewen Solon, Known to Millions of Viewers As Lucas In the BBC TV Maigret Series, Plays the Part of the Coxswain In the British Iron and Steel Federation's Film Against the Tide. - View image in PDF