LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
Fides
LOWESTOFT.—On the evening of the 19th March, at about 8 o'clock, the schooner J%fcs, of Nyborg, Denmark, bound from Newcastle to Kgueira, with a cargo of coal, while riding ia the roads began to drive, aad at 9 o'clock, the coxswain...
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
Category: Meetings
A Big Lump of Sea Rising Over the Bow of the Motor Barge Roino Which Ran Aground Off Margate on 14th April, 1967
A big lump of sea rising over the bow of the motor barge Roino which ran aground off Margate on 14th April, 1967. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) 1974: Coxswain Derek Scott Bem of the Mumbles Guest Speaker Made a Truly Memorable Speech on His Left Cdr Ralph Swann Cbe Rnvr at That Ti
(Below) . . . 1974: Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, guest speaker, made a truly memorable speech. On his left, Cdr Ralph Swann, CBE RNVR, at that time chairman of the Institution . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below Right) Flattening Out to a Planing Surface Aft the Sponson Which Gives the Medina Her Stability Is Divided Into Watertight Compartments By Inner Baffles
(Below, right) . . . flattening out to a planing surface aft. The sponson, which gives the Medina her stability, is divided into watertight compartments by inner baffles.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(8)—Frank Bloom's Occupation Is Oyster Fishing, Which He Does With Les Wall, a Retired Life-Boatman, In the Backwaters at Walton.
(8)—Frank Bloom's occupation is oyster fishing, which he does with Les Wall, a retired life-boatman, in the backwaters at Walton.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's Deputy Head of Fundraising and Marketing, Reads the Winning Number on a Ticket Drawn By Miss Millvina Dean
Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, reads the winning number on a ticket drawn by Miss Millvina Dean. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Memorial garden update
There's never been a better time to visit the UK’s National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
The RNLI section of the arboretum has just been redesigned, courtesy of expert garden designer Chris Beardshaw,...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1959
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUN1 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New Life-boats for the following Stations : On account— 156,764 304 44,343 17,104 Aberdeen, Aldeburgh, Ballycotton, Dunbar, Islay, Lerwick, Newhaven, Penlee, Scarborough,...
Category: Accounts