LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
Category: Articles
Across a Crowded Room: Thoughts on the Annual Presentation of Awards for Gallantry By Alan Neal
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY by Alan Neal Deputy Secretary (Operations Division) 'AH! THERE'S THE RNLI,' exclaimed the coxswain of an East Anglian lifeboat who had travelled to London to receive a...
Category: Awards
Peace Time Record of Lives Saved: Outstanding Year's Work Reported
THE President of the R.N.L.I., the Duke of Kent, said at the 148th annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 18th May, that the Institution rested on four great pillars, each of which was essential to its health and...
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Selection of a New Life-Boat
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Families. The Aindows of Formby, Lancashire
ONE of the most remarkable family records in the history of the Life-boat Service is that of the Aindows of Formby, in Lancashire, who for nearly 60 years provided the greater part of the Crew of the Life-boat at Formby, a very isolated...
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The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
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Letters
An enjoyable experience While I was on holiday near Veryan last summer I enjoyed sailing by dinghy in Gerrans Bay. However on July 18, when I had the outboard motor on the boat, the motor failed and I was driven on to the rocks at Nare Head....
Category: Correspondence
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE history of the Institution is now being written, and will be published in the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on this page.
The original painting by Mr. Rowland Fisher, R.O.I., S.M.A., was...
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