LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue of Man Cut Off By Tide
Letters of commendation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., have been sent to Mr. John Parsons of Luton and Master Michael Dunn of Highbridge for rescuing a man who was cut off by...
Category: Services
Douglas Bay As Sir William Hillary Would Have Known It: 1823 Print Shows St.Mary's Rock Before Tower of Refuge Was Built By Courtesy of the Manx Museum
Douglas Bay as Sir William Hillary would have known it: 1823 print shows St Mary's Rock before Tower of Refuge was built.
by courtesy of the Manx Museum.
Category: Drawings
Notes of the Quarter
ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, April 14th, 1932.
Sir GODFKEY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of Sir William Priestley, President of the Bradford Branch, and a Vice- President of the Institution since 1926, and...
Category: Committee
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE MEDAL R0YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National...
Category: Medals
Alderney Lifeboat Crew Are Presented to the Duchess of Kent By Coxswain Stephen Shaw
Alderney lifeboat crew are presented to the Duchess of Kent by Coxswain Stephen Shaw. Behind the Duchess are (r) Mr Michael Vernon, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, and (I) Dr John Ayoub, chairman of the branch committee. photograph by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...
Category: Services
The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1935
4. 4.55 a.m. 4. 11.15 a.m. 4. 11.20 a.m. 4. 4.33 p.m. 8. 5.0 p.m. 9. 11.30 a.m. 11. 7.52 a.m. 11.
11. 3.30 p.m.
4.37 p.m. 13. 10.25 a.m. 13. 3.15 p.m. 22. 9.5 p.m. ...
Category: Services
As the Young See Us
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
Category: Articles