LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RECORD SUM
On 17th April, 1969, Abbotsford County Secondary School for Boys, Ashford, Middlesex, held a sponsored walk on behalf of the R.N.L.I. and raised a record sum—over £1,250. Of the 460 children who took part, 450 completed the 20- mile...
Category: Donations
At a Highly Successful Concert By Harrow Concert Band at Kodak Hall Wealdstone In September the Music Played Ranged from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Tchai
At a highly successful concert by Harrow Concert Band at Kodak Hall, Wealdstone, in September, the music played ranged from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Tchaikovsky.
Rayners Lane and Eastcote branches helped with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Surfboard
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Helen Blake
Helen Blake is the sole example of a design intended for use in confined waters. The War intervened and no others were built.
She spent her 20 years of service on the Liffey Estuary in Ireland.
Type... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
Number...
Category: Annual Reports
Our courageous community
It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue
On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...
Category: Articles
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
IT is now proposed to say a few words on the stowage and care of the gear, and though the remarks are addressed in the first place to the Coxswains, it is hoped that they will not be altogether without interest to the general...
Category: Articles
Primrose
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Primrose, which had a crew of four, had not returned and had last been seen by fishermen near Mav...
The S.S. Marsworth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...
From a Life-Boat Collector
The following letter has been received from a lady who for over fourteen years has been a collector for one of the Institution's branches:—• "I wish to assure you that all my efforts on behalf of your great caus have been well...
Category: Correspondence