LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...
Category: Meetings
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the Storms of January Last
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.
After the boat's...
Category: Services
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 7 A.M. on the morning of the llth January a man was badly injured on board the...
Category: Services
(Right} Is Taken on a Tour of Inspection of Rotary Service By (I) Cdr Bruce Cairns Chief of Operations Rnli and (R) Captain Peter White
(right} is taken on a tour of inspection of Rotary Service by (I.) Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations RNLI, and (r.) Captain Peter White,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jewels for a Lifeboat:
Jewels for a lifeboat: A member of Phillips' staff models some of the 17 items of jewellery Mrs Esme Anderson generously gave to the RNLI for auction to pay for a new £390,000 Arun class lifeboat to be stationed at Newhaven and to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anchor man
There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...
Category: Articles
New Tractor for Launching
DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1897
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 27th day of March, 1897, The Eight Hon.
Gr. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord...
Category: Annual Reports
There they are, boy. They were heroes
Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole
Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1989 Continued from Previous Page
Continued from previous page Torbay, South Devon Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: March 22, 25, 27, April 2 (four times), 15, 19, May 3, 11, 12 and 20 D class: April 1 and May 28 Trearddur Bay, Gwynedd D class: March 27, May 13 and 28 Troon,...
Category: Services