LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Upperton
Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Jump from pier SOUTHEND STATION MECHANIC, Robert Chalk, was walking with two friends, Frederick Robinson (ILB crew) and Bernard Barton, near the lifeboathouse on Southend Pier at 0900 on Monday, November 25, 1974, when, looking into the sea...
RNLI plan
The RNLI plan 2010–14 is now available to view online, at rnli.org.uk/fiveyearplan.
The plan sets out clearly how the RNLI intends to carry on its proud tradition while addressing potentially difficult times ahead. See...
Category: Articles
Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
Category: Committee
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild and New Branches of the Institution
ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...
Category: Branches
Captain W.J. Law,
JUNE 1995 Captain W.J. Law, president of Stanmore branch. He joined the branch in 1978 and for 16 years was the flag week organiser, receiving a Silver badge in 1989. Captain Law was appointed president of the branch in 1994..
Category: Obituaries
Rubbish Recovered from the Bottom of the River Cam Raised £500 In Sponsorship Half of Which Was Donated to the Rnli; the Sub Aqua Junk Hunters Were Members of Cambridge University's
Rubbish recovered from the bottom of the River Cam raised £500 in sponsorship, half of which was donated to the RNLI; the sub aqua junk hunters were members of Cambridge University's Underwater Exploration Group whose haul included... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenary of the Padstow Station
THE Life-boat Station at Padstow has celebrated its Centenary this year.
The first mention of it in the records of the Institution appears under the date, 24th January, 1827, when it was decided to make a grant of £10...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Ties
BECAUSE of the large demand for the new life-boat ties, which were described in the September number of the Life- boat on page 279, it has been possibleto place a substantial order for future supplies with consequent reductions in price.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs