LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — On the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, it was reported that a small yacht had capsized between Black Rock Buoy and Hurst Point, and at 11.35 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings. The sea was rough, with a...

South-West of England.

AT this conference delegates from twenty-two branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cornwall, Devonshire and Somerset met at Plymouth on the 22nd March. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...

‘The cause is individual, national, and universal … The people and vessels of every nation, whether in peace or in war, [are] to be equally objects of this Institution …’

They are the words of Sir William Hillary, who...

On the morning of the 4th February news was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore at Crowlink, and the Eastbourne motor life-boat Jane Holland and the Newhaven motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott were launched at about...

There was a definite air of inter-rescue services co-operation when Tenby lifeboat crew won the RAF Brawdy 202 Squadron challenge trophy in a darts competition between Pembrokeshire rescue organisations. The £128.31 raised in the raffle... - View image in PDF

RNLI Chief Executive Paul Boissier had the honour of meeting Pope Benedict XVI and HM The Queen on 16 September during a Papal visit to Holyrood House in Edinburgh.

Paul joined a number of charity bosses and heads of...

His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.

By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...

WITH the exception of Liverpool no Station Branch contributes so much each year to the Institution's revenue as Eastbourne. With a population of over 60,000 inhabitants, and a large number Instituof summer visitors, it has opportunities...