LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LEGACIES PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL' LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.
[Legacieg under £250 are omitted after having oeeu published twice in tfce Annual Eeporfa.} Amount...
Category: Donations
1974: (Below) Leaving St.Paul's Cathedral After the Institution's 150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication With Sir Hugh Wontner Lord Mayor of London
1974: (below) . . . leaving St Paul's Cathedral after the Institution's 150th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication with Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Around the Fund Raising Regions
A list of branches and guilds from the Greater London and Eastern Regions GREATER LONDON RNLI 202 Lambeth Road London SE1 7JW Tel 071-928 5742 Regional Organiser, Miss A. Wilkins London Camberwell Central Chiswick and Hammersmith City...
Category: Branches
The French Fishing Boat Jeune Louis
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 25th of November, 1952, a coastguardsman at Pett tele- phoned that a fishing boat was in diffi- culties near the shore off Rye. Later the Fairlight coastguard stated that she had apparently...
Peter Glen (R) Cruise Director of Fred Olson Travel
During Poole Open Days, Peter Glen (r), cruise director of Fred Olson Travel, presented a cheque for £3,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution; with them is Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
Category: Articles
Quality Training for Quality Crew
As part of its mission to save lives at sea, the RNLl insists on top level training for lifeboat crews. The hope is that the better trained the lifeboat crews are, the more lives will be saved and the less likely it is that the crews...
Category: Articles
Dangerously Ill
A seaman of the Greek steamer " Panachrandos," brought ashore by the Walmer life-boat after being examined by Mr. James Hall. (See ofi/xnite page.}. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doris, of Shoreham
JUNE 27TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About four in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a man was waving a red flag on a yacht which was dragging her anchor off Holland Sluice. The motor lifeboat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty...
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles