LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...

Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.

It is not the oldest boat...

I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.

I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...

Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.

JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of April, 1853, CAPTAIN THE EARL TALBOT, R.N., C.B., VICE-PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...

Thursday, 10th November, 1927.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Co-opted Mr. A. MAUDSLAY, Colonel the MASTER or SEMPILL, and Mr. H. TANSLEY WITT, members of the Committee of...

THE LIFEBOAT B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat B-742 Douglas Paley Funding: A gift from Mrs Evelyn Anne Paley, in memory of her late husband Air Commodore Douglas Paley THE CREW Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Members Andrew Hallet and Martin Davis...

GOLDEN CHARTER F U N L i R A L PLANS THE ONLY FUNERAL PLAN RECOMMENDED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ALLIED & INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIRECTORS iHU«itliB BQQ F U N E R A L P I A N N I C; A U T H O R I T Y YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T...