LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Extraordinary People
Each year,thousands of remarkable people provide voluntary donations that enable theRNLIto carry out its work.Many have no direct connection with the sea or maritimehistory,but simply have responded to our call and the bravery of our...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II (1)
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
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Category: Advertisement
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerse— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
Weston-Super-Mare: the Lifeboat People of Weston-Super-Mare Met at Knightstone
Weston-super-Mare: The lifeboat people of Weston-super-Mare met at Knightstone Causeway on Saturday August 13 for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat funded by an appeal launched to mark the centenary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
Category: Articles
Feature the Visitor Experience
An organisation funded totally by voluntary donations has a very special relationship with its friends.
Finding supporters, expanding and staying in touch with the supporter community is vital to the RNLI's future - as...
Category: Articles
‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1910.
Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
H.M.S. Diver
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— In the afternoon of the 2nd of March, 1949, three naval vessels were exer- cising off Berwick when one of them, H.M.S. Diver, a tug with a crew of ten, grounded on Standstill Point. Her engine had broken...