LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1914
Jan. 6. 5.16 a.m. Three fishing cobles of Flamborough. Flamborough No. 1 Life-boat stood by cobles.
„ 6. 8.30 a.m. Ketch James, of Carnarvon. Porthdinllaen Life-boat saved . . . 4 i, 6- 4.15 p.m....
Category: Services
People & Places
Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
Category: Articles
Llfracombe Celebrated Its 150Th Anniversary With An Hour-Long Ceremony at the Lifeboat Station on the Pier on Saturday September 23 1978 When (Left) a Commemora (1)
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classifieds
RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities I I Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...
Category: Advertisement
News and Views
End of an era...
Whenever a station changes lifeboats there is always a degree of sadness in handing back a trusted boat, tempered by the excitement of receiving a brand new vessel in its place. The Dover station's...
Category: Articles
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.
Walter...
Category: Meetings
Birthday honours
Four RNLI volunteers have been named in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Rhyl lifeboat Crew Member Paul Frost (pictured), Bembridge Lifeboat Operations Manager Captain Graham Hall, Bangor lifeboat Crew Member Brian...
Category: Articles
A light in the Darkness
Tonnes of timber were heaped along the English south coast last Winter – but what became of the cargo ship’s crew? Carol Waterkeyn hears the full story of Ice Prince, the men who went to her aid, and the RNLI’s first Silver Medal for 3...
Category: Articles