LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to be the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings: Financial Branches and Guilds.
CHELTENHAM.—On 18th July, Mrs.
Richard Davies, Chairman, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey
IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boats and the War. The King's Appreciation of the Institution's Work
THE KING'S APPRECIATION OF THE INSTITUTION'S WORK.
In reply to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution, drawing attention to the splendid services rendered by the Life-boats in connexion with the War, and the...
Category: Correspondence
The Penlee Life-Boat Alongside the Ems Ore in Mounts Bay, Penzance, when in Early October, 1966, the Vessel Put Out an SOS Following 'a Night of Violence by Some Members of her Crew'
The Penlee life-boat alongside the Ems Ore in Mounts Bay, Penzance, when in early October, 1966, the vessel put out an SOS following 'a night of violence by some members of her crew'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LITE PROM SHIPWRECK.
Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE loss of the whole crew of the Longhope life-boat made a deep impact on the nation as a whole. It evoked feelings not only of sympathy and grief but also of generosity and a widespread determination to express sympathy in a practical form...
Category: Articles
The Service Boards of Rye Harbour
Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
Category: Articles