LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...

Direct Debits If you received your journal through the post in one of the new plastic envelopes, you will find a direct debit form printed on the sheet which carried your address label.

We hope that, if you are a Shoreline...

The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...

AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...

DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...

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...

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TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...

NEWS POINT HURRICANE HEROES For those who lived through it, the hurricane which hit the south and south east coasts of England during the early hours of October 16 last will forever be imprinted on their memories.

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