LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In her presidential address at the Institution's annual general meeting on 21st March, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, called attention to the remark- able changes which have taken place during her presidency.

It was...

Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...

Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.

He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...

THURSDAY, 5th May, 1881.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.E.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre-...

ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...

IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...

ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.

The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...

SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...