LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Gateshead.

The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...

An everyday scene which even the complacent Australian cannot take for granted is the surf boat crews battling their way through the wildest surf. They make an unforgettable sight on the shoreward run with the five-man crew crowded at the...

EXPENDITURE.

LIFE-BOATS :—• New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Longhope, Montrose, New Brighton, Pie! (Barrow), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Ramsgate, Southwold, Stromness, Wexfacd,...

Royal visitor to the depot and headquarters HRH The Princess Royal visited the RNLI during a brief visit to Poole on 30 November 1989.

Despite a very tight schedule, which meant she could only spend some 45 minutes with the...

THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...

ANY changes in the composition of the fleet of Life-boats under the management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION must always be a subject of considerable interest to those whose business it is to study the question of the best type...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...

THE RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...