LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...
Category: Articles
Coming to our AGM and annual awards?
The RNLI AGM and annual presentation of awards will take place at The Barbican, London on 22 May 2014. Details of the AGM will be mailed to Governors of the RNLI, and more details of the AGM and the afternoon awards will feature in the next...
Category: Articles
For the Third Year Ray Rushton Offered His Car a 1904 Wolseley to the Rnli for Sponsorship In Last November's Veteran Car Run His Passenger Was Charlie Smithers Co
For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three cheers for Tamars!
Three new Tamar class lifeboats went on service at RNLI stations this Autumn – at Kilmore Quay, Shoreham Harbour and Bembridge.
Kilmore Quay’s new lifeboat, Killarney, was the first Tamar to go on station in Ireland....
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th Jan., 1903.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
Category: Articles
Response and Responsibility
For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
Category: Articles
James Bryce Allan
Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.
Mr. Allan was a...
Category: Obituaries
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For tlie Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1875.
A tice, cu tter, of Yarmon th—as-...
Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...
Category: Articles