LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Azores Packet, of Falmouth
On the 12th June, during a heavy gale of wind from N.N.W., with rain, the schooner Azores Packet, of Falmouth, stranded in making for the harbour at St. Ives. The life-boat of the Institution was quickly launched, and rescued her crew of 4...
Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy birthday, Frammy!
A former Whitby crew member recently celebrated his 90th birthday. He served on the lifeboat from 1951 to 1975. Ronnie Frampton, known...
Category: Articles
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Quiz Answers (From Page 18)
Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Meet Lifeboat Larry
Meet Lifeboat Larry—or at least one of him. - View image in PDF
Mr Jewers of Winterbourne Down, Bristol, makes rocking horses like this for voting children and to dale has bv selling them made a remarkable £500 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Penzance Lifeboat
(above) Penzance lifeboat Dora saved the crew of Jeune Hortense, a brigantine wrecked off Eastern Green, Penzance, in 1888. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th January, 1910.
Colonel Sir FITZROY CLAYTON, K.G.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
Aberdeen: on Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs