LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Munching for Money!
A combined ladies and gents RNLI committee dinner was held at a local hotel in Borth on St. David's Day.
Guest of honour was Mrs Dr May Reed, donor of the new inshore lifeboat stationed at Borth. A most enjoyable dinner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
The Presentation Which Stopped the Show! Eric Was There on Behalf of the House of Seagram to Present a Cheque for £10,000 to Commander F. R. H. Swann, Cbe R
The presentation which stopped the show!Eric was there on behalf of the House of Seagram to present a cheque for £10,000 to Commander F. R. H.
Swann, CBE RNVR, chairman of the Committee of Management, but he added his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Brighton Fishermen In Their Boat Being Towed to Safety By the Shoreham
Two Brighton fishermen in their boat being towed to safety by the Shoreham life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opening of the Kirkcudbright New Life-Boat House
ON the 30th November last a double event of a most interesting nature took place at the Lake, near Kirkcudbright, when the new Life-boat house, recently built by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT ' INSTITUTION, was opened and formally handed...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 20th November, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Passed Votes of Thanks to H.M. the KING and QUEEN, H.R.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., and H.R.H. the PRINCESS LOUISE, DUCHESS OF...
Category: Committee
Illustration from the Lifeboat February 1881 of the Wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford In Tow of the Tug Vulcan
Illustration from THE LIFEBOAT, February 1881, of the wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, in tow of the tug Vulcan..
Category: Drawings
SPRING INTO A NEW BOOK
FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
Category: Articles
News
By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.
Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...
Category: Articles
The Corton Lightvessel
During a whole N.E. gale and very heavy sea on the 26th March the Coastguard reported at 6.45 A.M. that the Corton Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat, in...