LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and me: Nadia Sawalha
WHO IS NADIA SAWALHA?
Actor, writer and two-time marathon runner, Nadia Sawalha has appeared in films including Slave of Dreams and Clockwise, and is a regular face on TV. She is perhaps best known for her roles in soaps such as...
Category: Articles
£69,494 from Life-Boat Days In 1940.
Never has there been such a generous response by the public to the appeal of life-boat flag days as in 1940. The number of branches which held flag days was 771, and 475 of them raised larger sums than ever before. The number of people who...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Work Across the Channel
IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1898.
Sir EDWARD BIBKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...
Category: Services
Special Gifts
"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in...
Category: Donations
Their Business In Great Waters. Mr. Louis N. Parker's Life-Boat Play
WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...
Category: Articles
Adams of the Goodwin Sands
" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.
I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...
Category: Poetry
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. (1)
COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...
Category: Articles
Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE,
January 1996 Admiral Sir Rae McKaig KCB CBE, member of the committee of management since 1984 and member of the search and rescue committee since 1987..
Category: Obituaries