LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...

As this issue of the JOURNAL probably comes before many of the head teachers of National Schools throughout the j United Kingdom for the first time, j and in view of their widespread co- j operation in the Prize Essay Competition, it seems...

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A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..

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THE RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...

ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...