LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 428 lives by the Life- Boats in 1893, and of 170 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which...
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'Such an incredible charity'
Friends and family of Nick and Emily Milligan – the father and daughter who died tragically in a speedboat accident in the Padstow Estuary in May 2013 – have cycled from Cornwall to London to raise over £150,000 for the...
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Sidelights on Stations and Places . . .
When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the...
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An Unknown Yacht and April Legend and On Y Va
Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...
Selsey Station
AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...
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Albert Groom,
January 1988 Albert Groom, vice president of the Canvey Island branch. Mr Groom was associated with the branch for 21 years and will be remembered in the Maldon and Ipswich area as the owner of several Thames barges. Whilst based at Maldon...
Category: Obituaries
A Steamer (7)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A steamer had been mined ten miles N.E. of Trevose Head, and the Padstow life-boat put out in the early morning to search. Other vessels helped, but nothing was found except a barrage balloon...
Letters
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During the Year 1876
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Category: Services
List of Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Donations