LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 July 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,900 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) 401 lives have been saved (an average of nearly two a...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1858
1.—Moved by Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B.
Seconded by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England,— 1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.-—Moved by Rear-Admiral...
Category: Meetings
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (,'fliejigurei refer to the numbers nf the Life~bo&tt detailed an the ten preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 134, Cyclist Life-boat Fund, 23. Homan, E. Esq., 118. Popham, Mrs., the laM, 224....
Category: Donations
The Royal Commission on the Loss of Life at Sea
THE " First Report" of this Royal Commission shows clearly the necessity for its appointment, for it contains authoritative evidence of an alarming waste of both life and property in the greatest source of the country's wealth...
Category: Articles
Record of the Branches: 1926—1927. The 20 Branches With the Highest Collection
The 20 Branches with the highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending September 30th,...
Category: Branches
Millennium Forester for the Relief Fleet
Millennium Forester tor the relief fleet This Atlantic 75 lifeboat, funded by members of The Independent Order of Foresters, will relieve similar lifeboats when they need repair or maintenance. 05/07/01. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Children from Coxheath Infants School Raised £200 for Sheerness Lifeboat Station With a Sponsored Walk Around Their School Field When They Visited the Station The
(Above) Children from Coxheath Infants School raised £200 for Sheerness lifeboat station with a sponsored walk around their school field. When they visited the station they brought with them a painting of a lifeboat by six-year-old... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Torpedoing of the "Leinster." By A. W. Lewis, The Consulting Engineer of the Institution
As it was in the course of my duties as Engineer to tie Institution that I was returning from Ireland on board the Leinster on Thursday morning, October 10th, a short account of my experience will not be out of place in THE LIFE- BOAT...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH, CARDIGANSHIRE.—The Life-boat stationed here many years since has been replaced by a new self-righting boat, which is 35 ft. long by 8 ft. 6 in.
wide and rows ten oars double-banked.
She is...
Category: Inaugurations