LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THE YEARS OF THEIR LIVES
Recognising our people’s achievements – as well as reporting our progress – has always been at the heart of the RNLI’s annual meetings. But how we do that has changed with the times, and is about to change again …
Category: Articles
(Below Left) Crimdon Dene April 10: R Kirkland An Exeuctive Committee Member of the Ancient Order of Foresters and T P Reynolds Honorary Secretary of the Ilb Stat
(Below, left) Crimdon Dene, April 10: R. Kirkland, an exeuctive committee member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and T. P. Reynolds, honorary secretary of the ILB station, at the handing-over ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LVIII. SUNDERLAND.—The Good Templar, 30 feet by 8 feet, 8 oars.
LIX. Ditto.—The Mary, 30i feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LX. Ditto.—The Florence Nightingale, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10...
Category: Articles
Two of the Southwold Ilb Team Receiving Theirawards from the Duke of Kent President of the RNLI at the Annual Meeting In London In May
Two of the Southwold ILB team receiving theirawards from the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., at the annual meeting in London in May. Top: Mr. Patrick Pile and (below) Mr. Martin Helmer.. - View image in PDF
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The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards May 10th 1988
Each year, as supporters of the RNLI make their way home from the Institution's annual meeting and presentation of awards, there is a feeling that surely the achievements of that year cannot be bettered.
Yet, each year...
Category: Meetings
Centenary of the Dutch Life-Boat Service
As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
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Golden Years, the Danish Coaster Else Gitte
Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...
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...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth May, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.
George Colville were re-elected...
Category: Committee
The Recent Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea
THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
Category: Articles