LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal. for Moelfre
Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey, has won the Institution's silver medal. On a very dark night, in a very rough sea, he took the lifeboat to the rescue of four airmen whose dinghy had been carried close to the rocks. It was a...
Category: Articles
The Chinese Life-Boat Service
IT would appear from a Yellow Book published in March last by order of the Inspector-General of Customs at Pekin that no Life-boats or life-saving stations are established along the coast of China excepting those in the district of Canton,...
Category: Articles
A Voice from Mesopotamia. Note By the Editor
SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...
Category: Committee
Some Ways of Raising Money
Miss Mackie-Campbell of Stonefield, Argyll, organised an equestrian day and designated the RNLI as a halfbeneficiary.
The event had to be postponed owing to atrocious weather, but in spite of this, when held soon afterwards...
Category: Donations
(Left) the Tank Test Models Were Fitted With a Lawn-Mower Engine, Radio Control and Motion Sensing Instruments for Freerunning Seakeeping Trials.
(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
SERVE UP A FISH SUPPER FOR THE RNLI
Breakfast, lunch or dinner, RNLI crew leave their families at a moment’s notice to save lives at sea. And this October, we hope you’ll answer our rescue call over dinner too – by hosting a fundraising Fish Supper. From 14–16 October, we need...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Colin Harrison of the Runswick Yorkshire
Coxswain Colin Harrison, of the Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat, was drowned in June when his coble capsized.
His son Colin, aged 12, was, however, found unconscious in the sea but revived..
Category: Obituaries
Fundraising
Winning fundraising friendsHarmony in Exeter An excellent way for branches and guilds to raise money within their community is to ask groups, clubs, businesses and individuals to do a fundraising event for their branch or guild.
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