LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
RNLI News
Out in the open around the country! Once again the RNLI will be opening its facilities to visitors this year, enabling them to gain a firsthand impression of how the Institution works and the quality of the boats and...
Category: Articles
36 Years After
The Institution has just received two legacies of £200 each, one for its general funds the other for its Selsey station, left it in gratitude by a Birmingham woman. In August 1908 she was on board the steamer "Queen" of...
Category: Articles
Cherbourg to Hamble By John Spicer
YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...
Category: Donations
Coxswain John Petit of St.Peter Port Receives from Hrh the Duke of Kent a Third Bar to His Bronze Medal; It Was for the Service to the Greek Freighter Cantonad In Last
Coxswain John Petit of St Peter Port receives from HRH The Duke of Kent a third bar to his bronze medal; it was for the service to the Greek freighter Cantonad in last January's storms. John Petit has also been awarded the silver medal,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860....
Category: Medals
An Aeroplane (76)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
Roll Out the Barrel!
Roll out the barrel! Pub teams rolled a barrel filled with 22 gallons of water along three miles of road. The barrel-push, by six teams of six runners, was to raise money for the new Loweslofl lifeboat appeal and the Licensed Victuallers'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (21)
JUNE 14TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 10s. 2d..
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...