LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

27 June: St Agnes’s D class lifeboat Blue Peter IV is pictured towing an angling boat to safety. The vessel had lost power from both engines 4 miles off St Agnes Beach.

In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....

METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...

Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...

THE RNLI has been selling souvenirs for well over half a century. The word 'souvenir' indicates what the main purpose originally was.

Small items which were expected to appeal to visitors to lifeboat houses were put...

THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...

THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...

A Life-boat Tour Through Sixteen Counties.

IN the Midlands and Wales the Cen- tenary was celebrated by a road tour of one of the Institution's reserve Life- boats, the Robert & Catherine, which for a number of...