LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
Four launches OVER THE WEEKEND of September 16 and 17 Filey lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle, launched on service three times and the station D class ILB once within the space of 26 hours.
The first...
Drawing from Experience
Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 v. rs, Modern lifeboats are highly sophisticated craft with unique features which enable them to survive when lesser craft would be in...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1934
1st February to 30th April, 1934.
Greater London.
ACTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayoress in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1933 £93, the...
Category: Branches
Sigurd Golje One of Sweden's Latest Rescue Cruisers Will Be Visiting Plymouth In July In January She Was Breaking Ice In the Bothnian Gulf
Sigurd Golje, one of Sweden's latest rescue cruisers, will be visiting Plymouth in July. In January she was breaking ice in the Bothnian Gulf.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1881
THE RIGHT HON. EARL PERCY, M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(Vide next page for this list.) 2.—Moved by...
Category: Meetings
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure.
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure. The Atlantic was on service for some 15 hours and eventually spent the night in Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fundraising
'RNLI day' reader offer National Boat Shows Ltd (NBS) has supported the RNLI for more than 25 years, donating free stand space and berths at both the London and Southampton International Boat Shows. This has enabled the RNLI to build...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1870, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Your Letters
What's the cover story? The cover of the Spring issue of The Lifeboat certainly sparked some lively correspondence last quarter. Some of you thought it was a refreshing change, others weren't so keen.
Here follows...
Category: Correspondence