LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station has welcomed its new vessel – the Shannon class Derek Bullivant, named after the generous supporter
who helped fund it. Derek Bullivant started one of the biggest aluminium recycling companies in the...

Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...

The Institution has received cheques from two ladies wlao are now both 84 years old, but still coatiau* to collect for it. One cheque comes from Mrs. L. M. Smith, of Gedling, the honorary organiser for a district of the Nottingham branch,...

'THE Year of the Lifeboat', as 1974 is to be known, will be an occasion for everyone connected with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and humility.

A record of 150 years of voluntary service, as a result of...

In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...

ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

We are proud to present these unique 2002 reader cruise offers at the very best time of the year for a price that Is simply unheard of on the British market.

You re bound to fall in love with the Dutch owned Van Gogh as...