LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and me: James Cracknell
WHO IS JAMES CRACKNELL?
When he retired from competitive rowing in 2006, James Cracknell OBE had two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles under his belt. In the same year, he and TV presenter/adventurer Ben Fogle...
Category: Articles
Yachts and a Sailboard
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
News
London lifeboats boost rescues The Lifeboats had another busy year in 2002, with crews rescuing 7,365 people. In their first full year of operations. Beach Rescue lifeguards were involved in 867 major incidents and saved 22...
Category: Articles
News
The first of May 2002 was a very special day for the RNLI, Falmouth lifeboat station and the county of Cornwall. Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, started her Golden Jubilee tour of Great Britain in Cornwall and...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee, held on the 10th Jan., at the General Post Office, the Honorary Secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., reported that the Fund had experi- enced more than usual prosperity during the past year,...
Category: Meetings
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935
1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Annual meeting on 29th January, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, G.C.B., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea! patron of the branch,...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st August to 30th September
Greater London.
BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Entertainment at Bed- dington, with addresses by the Mayor, Miss Roberts, honorary secretary, and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
Books
For the Yachtsman Skipper's Cockpit Guide ISBN 0713652 799 By Bo Streiffert Published by Adtard Coles Nautical Among our supporters are many people who go to sea both for their work and for their leisure and it is the leisure market at...
Category: Articles
The East Goodwin Lightvessel (1)
On the evening of 12th November, 1961, the East Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift. The Walmer, Dover and Ramsgate life-boats were all called out.
A full account of their services appears on page 200..