LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Members for R.N.L.I. Committee of Management
Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Committee
(Front to Back): Bangor Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Youth of Ulster,
(Front to back): Bangor Atlantic 21 lifeboat Youth of Ulster, Lame Trent class lifeboat Dr John McSparran and Donaghadee Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian D class: Aug 12 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3 (twice), 7 (twice), 13, 14, 17 (twice), 20, 24, Sept 4, 5 (twice), 11 and 26 Abersoch, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic21: Aug4,17,23,28 (five times), Sept 5, 11 and 14...
Category: Services
None (4)
A private resident of Paignton telephoned to the Coastguard on the night of 27th April that he had seen a rocket about three miles east of Paignton Head. He thought that it had been fired from a boat in trouble eastward of a line from Berry...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Ready for 2007 Yet?
The Lifeboat is pleased to announce that the third RNLI SOS day will be on Friday 26 January 2007. Will your school, youth organisation, office or factory colleagues wear their trainers for the day in exchange for a £1/€2 donation?... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
Tonnage Admeasurement. Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage
FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
Category: Articles
A New Medal for Gallantry
SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...
Category: Medals
After Opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19 Hrh the Duke of Kent Flew By Helicopter to Sennen Cove Conwall to Name Diana White Semen's New 3
After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs