LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gold Standard
Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
Category: Medals
Mary Woods of Test Branch
How many teddy bears does it take to buy a Neil Robertson stretcher? One hundred! Mary Woods of Test branch knitted and sold 100 teddies and paid for the stretcher now being used at Beaumaris lifeboat station. One obviously satisfied... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
Perth.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 19th May, the chair being taken by the Rev. P. R. Landreth, the Chairman of Committee. The Report showed that for the nine months ending the 30th Septem- ber, 1919, the-Branch had...
Category: Branches
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1871
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current...
Category: Meetings
J.G. Graves of Sheffield
J.G. Graves of Sheffield was the first of the 26 Oakley Mk1 s to be built between 1958 and 1971 and is displayed on a typical launching carriage of the period. The class was designed to be self righting while retaining a high degree of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1937, to 31st January, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat stand at the Sea-roamers' Ex- hibition, at Messrs. Selfridge's.
BARNET.—Mrs. Ellicott appointed joint honorary secretary.
BATTERSEA. — Branch reorganized...
Category: Branches
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1890
THE Board of Trade have recently pub- lished, in accordance with their annual custom, a Blue Book overflowing with interesting information and tables of figures such as to delight the most enthusiastic statistician, furnishing elaborate...
Category: Articles
Far West, of Newport
About ,7 o'clock on the evening of the 18th Novem- ber, information was received at Penarth that a large ship was stranded on the S.W.. Patch. The life-boat at once proceeded to the spot in tow of a steam-tug. On ar- riving alongside,...
Fordingbridge Branch Held a Cricketers V Celebrities Cricket Match at Godshill Last August Among Those Who Helped to Raise £400 for the Lifeboat Service Were (1 to R) Brian Tirnms (Hampshire
Fordingbridge branch held a Cricketers v Celebrities cricket match at Godshill last August.
Among those who helped to raise £400 for the lifeboat service were (1. to r.) Brian Tirnms (Hampshire and Warwickshire),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lenvick Sunday August 19 1979:52Ft Arun Lifeboat Soldian Manoeuvring Norwegian Fishing Vessel Fr^Yvarden Alongside Lenvick Harbour After Towing Her About 60 Miles to Safety Fr^Yvarden W
Lenvick, Sunday August 19, 1979:52ft Arun lifeboat So dian manoeuvring Norwegian fishing vessel Fr yvarden alongside Lenvick Harbour after towing her about 60 miles to safety.
Fr yvarden was disabled by a net round her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs