LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.

When I...

The South Bank Meetings 1990 The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards for 1989 The RNLI's 1990 Annual General meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on the South Bank in London on May 22, were again well attended by...

Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....

Three joval barmen at the Whaley Bridge branch annual summer luncheon, which is held in the barn and grounds of Gap House, Kettleshulme, home of Mr and Mrs A. R. Leonard. 1982 was the event's seventh vear and its seventh record amount... - View image in PDF

By Major-General the Rt. Hon. John E. Bernard Seeley, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

[Major-General Seely has been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution for over twenty-eight years.

He has...

ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...

100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...

PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...