LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
"Lest We Forget." November 11th, 1891: November 11th, 1918
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
Category: Articles
Getting on for 30 Boats Took Part In Brighton Trawler Race Which Organised By the Trawlermen's Association on July 24 Raised £1000 for the Local Rnli Branch
Getting on for 30 boats took part in Brighton trawler race which, organised by the Trawlermen's Association on July 24, raised £1,000 for the local RNLI branch. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Daily Telegraph. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Comedy Drama Role for Port Isaac Lifeboat
Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Time and time again comes the news that a branch or guild has passed all its previous achievements. There is Swansea which, with special efforts for Jubilee year, raised a record of £3,214. Then, at Lymington, the branch and guild...
Category: Donations
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1861
Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton
IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
Category: Articles
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Tenby 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Henry Comber Brown Launched on February 27 In Gale Force Winds and a Very Rough Sea to Bring a Man from Caldy Island for Compassi
Tenby 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Henry Comber Brown launched on February 27 in gale force winds and a very rough sea to bring a man from Caldy Island for compassionate reasons.
photograph by courtesy of R.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gallant Service In 1912. Silver Medal for the Second Coxswain at Fraserburgh
IT has been decided to make special awards in connexion with a service which took place at Fraserburgh in January, 1912, when the Life-boat was launched to the help of a steam trawler, Clio. The service of the Life-boat was reported to the...
Category: Services