LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: a Capital Rescue Service
To those who live near or visit the coast, an RNLI lifeboat station is a familiar and reassuring sight. But many are still surprised to learn that there are RNLI crews launching to the rescue in London too For more than three years now, the...
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When the Classroom Meets the Sea
'My thoughts about the beach have changed. I used to think it was just a fun place to be but now I know there are hidden dangers as well.' These are the words of a teenager from inner London who had the chance to take part in one of...
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News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
INTERNATIONAL HEROES
The RNLI’s Future Leaders in Lifesaving programme has picked up a prestigious HERO Award from the International...
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Fundraising
Supporter recruitment manager, Sharon New, brings us the inside story on a new breed of RNLI street fundraisers and recruiters..
This summer you may come across some Lifeboats fundraisers that you have not seen before. They...
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Recent Demonstrations
ABERDEEN.—The first Life-boat demon- stration in aid of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in Aberdeen was held on Thursday, the 6th July, the "Royal Wedding Day." It had been originally intended to have a " LIFE-BOAT...
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Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
West Division Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone...
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Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Tuesday the 11th day of May, 1875, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE...
Category: Annual Reports
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Twenty-Five Years of Life-Boat Work. By Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Late Inspector of Life-Boats
IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
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