LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...

THIRTY-EIGHT life-boatmen, from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh stations were invited to attend the annual meeting in London, on 26th April, to receive medals and vellums awarded to them for gallantry during the previous year. This is the...

£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...

22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.55 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the bowman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat under oars was making poor progress about three-quarters of a Bile east of the station. The honorary lecretary...

THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...

Lifeboat Services August, September and October, 1985 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: August 3, October 9 and 14 D class inflatable: October 9 and 14 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 4, 6,18, 21 (twice), 26, 28, 29, September 21 and...