LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes and News
THE Institution has now entered on the hundredth year of its existence. Its first century will actually be completed on 4th March, 1924. On that day, in 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, with the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.
Walter...
Category: Meetings
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th May, 1902.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Spirit
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
The Motor Sailer Maureen II
In rock cleft WHILE ON PASSAGE from Carrick Fergus to Portpatrick on Monday August 3, 1981, the 32ft motor sailer Maureen II suffered engine failure. She continued under sail but, trying to enter harbour, she ran into difficulties and was...
A Yacht
Yacht aground THE POLICE informed Barrow coxswain, Robert Charnley, at 2300 on August 24, 1974, that an independent source had reported the sighting of a red flare north of Walney Island. They were advising HM Coastguard, who would be...
New Ways of Raising Money
A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...
Category: Donations
GIVE IT A GO: STARGAZING
When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above
Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...
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The Fundraisers
Some w a y s of f i l l i n g t he CO f f e r s . . . A clean sweep! The Royal Burgh of Cullen ladies lifeboat guild, established in May 1990, recently held a tombola evening which raised £700. The village of Cullen in north east...
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