LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..

Annual Meetings : Station Branches.

BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...

Most of the RNLI’s UK supporters boost their donations by using Gift Aid, which allows the charity to claim back the basic rate tax that donors have already paid on donations. This brings in a very large amount indeed (about £4M...

Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.

A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...

Thursday, 19th February, 1931.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.

Passed a Vote of Thanks to His Grace the DUKE OF MONTROSE, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., for attending Life-boat Ceremonies at Aberdeen and...

THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...

Not content with just the ordinary duties of a lifeboat crew, the men from Salcombe have proved themselves to be as much of a fund-raising team as they are a lifesaving team. Last year, through the crew's efforts alone, £4,267 was... - View image in PDF

ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.

submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.

This was...