LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
Category: Articles
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th October, 1891.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...
Category: Committee
Dressed for the Job...
Dressed for the job...
Suitably attired, for the lifeboat if not for their surroundings, youngsters four-year-old Lucie Polwin, her brother Ben (10) and sister Hannah (8) (right), helped their parents on flag day in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Rowing raisers No apologies for featuring RNLI fundraisers the Hythe Hookers again - these ladies are always seen to be up to something intriguing! On New Year's Day they dressed up as cops and robbers and took part in the annual Maldon...
Category: Articles
Books
The history of the Lerwick lifeboats The history of the New Quay lifeboats The history of Barrow lifeboats By Jeff Morris Price: £3.50 each (including postage and packaging) The honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts'...
Category: Articles
Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
A Stern Test
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
Category: Articles
New Hand at the FR Helm
The RNLI is pleased to announce that David Brann has been appointed fundraising and marketing director. For the past six years David has been the Institution's marketing manager.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Boats for North Sunderland and Exmouth
The new North Sunderland life-boat was named Grace Darling at the life- boat station at Seahouses on the 31st of July. Mr. H. E. B. Daniell, chair- man of the North Sunderland branch, took the chair. Lieut. E. D. Stogdon, R.N.V.R., district...
Category: Inaugurations