LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
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Today's Lifeboatwomen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1995 show that during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 6,092 times (an average of more than 16 launches a day) 1,621 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some 4%...
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Advance
The schooner Advance, of Plymouth, when bound from Hull to Teignmouth with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the Scroby Sands on the 23rd February. Immediately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent...
The Life-Boat Station
THB following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
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Annual Press Award
In February, 1964, it was decided to award a certificate annually to the writer of what is in the Institution's opinion the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat.
The Institution carefully studied...
Category: Awards
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To TIMOTHY KEOHANE, on his retirement, after serving 23£ years as Coxswain of the Courtmacsherry Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To CHARLES WM. CONWAY, on his retirement, after serving 5J years as...
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Nora and Harold Haarfager
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The gale of the 20th November was severely felt here, the wind blowing from the E.N.E. with a very heavy sea. At 8 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched, a three-masted schooner, which proved to...
Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.5 on the morning of the llth of October, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Enterprize II was at sea in bad weather. Conditions at the outer harbour bar were dangerous, and the No. 1...
Born to Be Wild
For the past seven years motorbike enthusiasts from far and wide have taken part in the Annual Classic Motorcycle Ride to raise funds for the RNLI. This year's event, which saw around 180 bikes arriving at Poole harbour on 11 June,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...