LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.

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(Right) After Franklyn James (I) had drawn the lottery, Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston makes presentations to Councillor Peter Coles, former Mayor of Poole, and Mrs Coles. Looking on are children from Heathlands Junior School.. - View image in PDF

FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...

£528,726 was the highest income the Institution has ever had. Here is another record, the lowest. There has never been a post which has not brought contributions, but by the morning post on July 27th there was only one, a postal older...

Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale force 9 to storm force...

INDIAN SHIP AGROUND Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.15 a.m. on i4th March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Longscar. There was a full gale from the south-east with a rough sea. The crew...

More than £12,000 was raised by Bristol ladies' guild at its summer ball, held last July at the home of Mr and Mrs Cullum McAlpine, near Bath. On arrival, every lady was presented with a red rose, and when the 350 guests sat down to...