LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society completed its first hundred years of work in February, 1939. The Institu- tion sent its cordial congratulations to the Society on its magnificent record of 897,801...

Just after mid- night on the 18th-19th July news was received that a small motor fishing boat, with four visitors on board, was missing. The boat had last been seen near the harbour bar. She had no compass, and, as a thick fog had come on,...

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Blue Peter TWO MEMBERS of the North Berwick, East Lothian, inshore lifeboat crew, Benjamin Pearson and Alexander Russell, have both been awarded the RNLl's bronze medal for gallantry for rescuing a man who was in difficulties on July 26...

Anyone interested in the organization of a major charity will find Two Ears of Corn by Mervyn Jones (Hodder and Stoughton, 2i/-) a stimulating work.

This is the story of the growth of Oxfam from an inaugural meeting held by...

When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers

‘With the weather like it...

THE life-boat journal on the 1st of January, 1858, in describing a wreck which occurred at Brighton on the 8th of October, 1857, reported: "There were at that time three life-boats at Brighton; one, we believe, belonging to the town...