LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Malta.
Since June of last year the Institution has received seven gifts from a church in Malta, sent by a regimental sergeant major of the Royal Artillery. In sending the fourth gift he wrote that it was part of the collection at a harvest festival...
Category: Articles
"The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound."
WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
Category: Poetry
A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services
David Steenvoorden Has Been a Full-Time Crew Member of Humber Lifeboat
David Steenvoorden has been a full-time crew member of Humber lifeboat since 1990.
Dave joined the inshore lifeboat crew at Cleethorpes in 1987, and in 1990 was awarded a Bronze Medal in recognition of his courage,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
FOR the last three years the Institution has distributed a Life-boat Calendar, with a view to keeping the work of the j Life-boat Service continually before the public. By doing this the Committee of Management have felt that they might also...
Category: Advertisement
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE courtesy of The Scottish Daily Record Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother pictured after officially naming Thurso's new Arun class lifeboat The Queen Mother on 9 August 1989.
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Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat
Not under command A MESSAGE came to Yarmouth Coastguard from Norfolk Police at 1700 on Wednesday August 12, 1981, to say that a speedboat was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach, Heacham, and a child had been hit; an...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID ANDERSON, on his retirement, after serving 8J years as Bowman and 23 years as Coxswain at Montrose, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To THOMAS LEADBETTER, on his retirement, after serving 14 years as Bowman...
Category: Awards
From a Life-Boat Collector
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
Category: Correspondence
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee