LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report. 1907
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Saturday, the 16th day of March, The Most Honourable the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., in the Chair, the...
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A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
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The Margate Motor Life-Boat on Her Way to Calais
(Left to right: Mr. T. W. Gomm, Honorary Secretary; Mrs. Gomm; the Mayor of Deal; the Town Clerk of Deal.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On March 30 Rear Admiral W J Graham
On March 30 Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (c), director of the Institution, accepted the gift of a radar simulator, to be used for crew training, from Alan Jones (I), of Rediffusion Ltd of Crawlev. The simulator was prepared for the RNLI by a... - View image in PDF
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Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
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Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
September
Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE...
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The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings