LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

around and about the RNLI Lionel 'steps in' and saves the day… Lionel Blair, showbiz personality and dancer, stepped in to draw the lifeboat lottery at RNLI Open Days at 1200 on Saturday 2 August. Comedian, Jim Davidson, who was...

OUR Great Exhibition—nay, the World's Great Exhibition—is open to the world's view at last. T'he most numerous, the grandest collection of the useful works of man that was ever brought together within the walls of a single...

Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...

N the 22nd number of this Journal we described these life-belts, with which all the life-boat crews in connexion with the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are provided, and which they are required to wear on every occasion of their going...

All Life-boat workers, and particularly those women who help in the actual launching of Life-boats, will be interested to know that there is now in Sweden a woman who is a regular swain had a daughter who had, from the ' very earliest...

On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...

MARGATE.—On the 24th November, during a strong gale increasing to a hurricane from E.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and sleet, and a high sea, at about 9.30 p.n.,the Quiver Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and...

ON the afternoon of the 30th of May, ths life-boat at Cullercoats ran an engine trial. As she was being re- placed on her carriage she slipped and fell on one of the launchers, a man of sixty-seven. One of his legs was so severely injured...