LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

We’re delighted to announce that our next all-weather lifeboat class, due on station in 2013, will be called the Shannon. We’ve been naming lifeboats after rivers or stretches of water for 45 years, but this is the first time the name of an...

When Rackhams, of Birmingham, held a British week during the period 8th to 26th August, 1967, the eight selling floors of their premises - some 488,821 square feet - were turned into a giant exhibition hall. The...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 579, 588, 593, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1968, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire...

THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...

. . . the technical development of new lifeboats: (right) the latest 52ft Arun lifeboat, Duchess of Kent, the gift of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England and destined for the relief fleet. The CRp-hul/ed Arun is the largest and... - View image in PDF

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.40 on the morning of the 12th August, 1961, the Inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Barrell's lightvessel who needed to be landed. As no...

Young members of the Isle of Anglesey Swimming Club lining up after their successful sponsored swim which raised £478 for the RNLI. The three standing directly behind the children are (I.) Mr L. Coates, honorary secretary of the... - View image in PDF

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...