LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Increased Rewards
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
Category: Articles
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th September, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Letters
Welcome home Your autumn issue of the journal will, I am sure, give full coverage of the AGM in May and subsequent medal and award presentations, and 1 should like to follow that up by telling you of the wonderful night we all had on the...
Category: Correspondence
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES, K.G.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES
H.R.H. THE DUKE of EDINBURGH,...
Category: Advertisement
Port Isaac Ilb Stood By While An Attempt Was Made on October 5 1975 to Rescue Bullocks Which Had Fallen Down the Cliff at Port Quin
Port Isaac ILB stood by while an attempt was made, on October 5, 1975, to rescue bullocks which had fallen down the cliff at Port Quin. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of E. J. Watts, Rock. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Welcome
Earlier this year, Hoylake launch volunteer Tracy Davies – pictured on the front page – became the first woman to qualify as an operator of the Shannon class lifeboat’s launch and recovery vehicle. Now she’s on call, ready to send the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Tonis Chandris
JANUARY 9TH . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 11 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that a Greek steamer was sinking north of Unst, and that the life-boat should go to Balta Sound and await further...
A Record Number of Visitors to This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, Visited the R.N.L.I. Stand Between 4th-14th January, 1967
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• Writers of fictional sea stories invent a hero, perhaps a villain and a few horrendous storms, then throw in a little romance to hold the interest of the reader. Life, of course, does not fit such neat patterns and only two parts of the...
Category: Articles