LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Features
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
The Voluntary Spirit
Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th October, 1931.
Special Meeting.
Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...
Category: Committee
The Late Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.
WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...
Category: Obituaries
A Pinnace (1)
LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
A Pinnace
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
People and Places
Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Consett
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 15th April, , of Sunderland, coal laden from South Shields to Genoa, stranded on the Cross Sand. A yawl was launched, and on arriving at the steamer the master engaged her services to assist to get the...
Syren
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Large flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong Southerly wind and heavy sea, on the 18th of January.
The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched at 1.45 A.M., and...
The Passenger Steamer Nottingham
During thick weather on the llth December a vessel was observed ashore on the Scroby Sands, opposite to the Life-boat station.
There was a strong breeze blowing, and a ground swell on the Sands. The crew of the No. 1...