LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alton: AUCTION WINS SAIL-AWAY TREAT FOR SUPPORTER
RNLI supporter Joan Bennett swapped land for sea on a sailing trip last year, thanks to an auction of promises event put on by the Alton Fundraising Branch. In the last 5 years, Joan’s bids have won her three of these sail-away days, joining...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
GREAT YARMOUTH AND CAISTER. — On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on...
Category: Services
Rug-Making for the Institution
As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the...
Category: Donations
Summary of Accounts for 1977
Summary of Accounts for 1977 Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters.
£ millions 6.5 How expenditure was apportioned Ten years at a glance 0.5 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Areas of...
Category: Accounts
People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
Category: Articles
Minehead's First
Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.
In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig Receives His Bronze Medal for the Service to the Fishing Vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 Presentat
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig receives his Bronze medal for the service to the fishing vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 presentation of awards ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting of the French Life-Boat Service
AT the invitation of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the Hon.
George Colville, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, attended the Society's Annual Meeting, which was held in Paris on Sunday...
Category: Meetings
The English Sea Fisheries
THE sea fisheries of this country cannot but be a subject of interest to every one, •whether living on the sea-coast or inland, but more particularly must they be so to the friends of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, because of the...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...
Category: Articles