LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam Life-Boat for South Holland
THE South Holland Life-boat Society was so pleased with the result of its inquiries as to the success of the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION'S Steam Life-boats that it recently instructed Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick,...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December, 1938
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
Category: Branches
The Launch of the Life-Boat
THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
Category: Poetry
Hare and Hounds Pub
Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.
The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Santa Fe
Torbay, Devon. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the hon- orary secretary a report that a small sailing dinghy had capsized in Mansands Bay and that her crew of two were in the water. At 12.55...
Their Stint Done: a Nine-Year-Old and His Dog Who on June 9 With 274 Other Pupils of St.Peter's Church of England Junior School Harborne Birmingham Helped to Raise £
Their stint done: a nine-year-old and his dog who, on June 9, with 274 other pupils of St Peter's Church of England Junior School, Harborne, Birmingham, helped to raise £1,200 for the RNLI on a sponsored walk round Harborne Cricket... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 18th day of March, 1862, The Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, The following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Fundraisers
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
Category: Articles
Varley Dry Accumulators Limited
The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.
This special boat needs a very special battery...
Category: Advertisement
Rescue
RESCUE D LifeBoAt CReW sAVes eAsteR BUNNy! Tobermory lifeboat crew had an unusual, yet appropriate, casualty to rescue on Easter Sunday in the form of a pet rabbit. Four adults, two children, a dog and the rabbit were onboard the yacht Blue...
Category: Articles