LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
The RNLI in Ireland Having been for more than 21 years honorary secretary of one of the busiest lifeboat stations in Ireland, I was naturally much interested by the fine article in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT by my friend Brian Clark,...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th August, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received within the last few weeks the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1889, issued from the Government Printing Office at Washington, the Service being a...
Category: Articles
Management of Boats In Broken Water
COPIES of the following circular, relative to the proper management of boats when running to the shore before a heavy broken sea, have been forwarded to the branches of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, with the view to its being...
Category: Articles
Rnlike Crazy (Left) By Sally Wilson
Anyone who has recently completed a marathon or is training for one, possibly their first ever, will be grateful to Sally Wilson for putting the experience into words. The RNLI is receiving everincreasing support from sponsored marathon...
Category: Articles
The Late Edward Spender, Esq.
THE LATE EDWARD SPENDER, ESQ.
BY the lamented death of this gentleman, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has lost one of its ablest and most steadfast advocates in the press. On Friday, the 7th June last, Mr. Spender...
Category: Obituaries
The English Fisheries
As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...
Category: Articles
Demaris
On the 26th January at 7.35 A.M the Gun- fleet Light-house commenced to fire guns signifying that a vessel was on the sands, and within ten minutes the Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 was on her way to help those on board. The Life- boat had...
Central Appeals Committee
WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...
Category: Committee
Book Corner
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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Category: Articles