LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.

Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...

SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...

OCT. 29TH . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. The Aberdeen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 15th October, 1939, and the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the following day.<...

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio message from the Norwegian liner Braemar, of Oslo, requesting that a helicopter take off a sick man. The coastguard, however, was unable...

Prince Edward at the helm: Prince Edward paid a private visit to Hunstanton lifeboat station on January 7, while on holiday at Sandringham. The Prince, who is training to be an officer in the Royal Marines, took the helm of the station's... - View image in PDF

JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...

The Dowager Viscountess Colville of Culross, OBE president of Inverbervie and district ladies' guild from 1973 to 1985 and who was awarded a gold badge in 1982..

Looking down through freeing trunk in wheelhouse deck to propeller, with freeing tool standing by.. - View image in PDF