LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• There is a rich seam of historical booklets to report this autumn: In recent years it has been recognised that a boat specifically for lifesaving was established at Formby Point on the approaches to Liverpool as early as 1776....
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1945.
Last year life-boat days raised £107,988. The number of branches holding days was 832 and over 10,000,000 people contributed..
Category: Articles
Visits to Fund Raisers While Anthony Oliver Dos (Southern) Was Calling on Lock-Keeper Lyn David and His Wife (I) at Marsh Lock Henley-On-Thames the Chief Inspec
Visits to fund raisers . . . While Anthony Oliver, DOS (Southern) was calling on lock-keeper, Lyn David, and his wife (I.) at Marsh Lock, Henley-on-Thames, the Chief Inspector of Navigation, Thames Water Authority, Mr D. Cruickshank, passed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1893
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Royal Highness The PRINCE OF WALES, KG.
Seconded by The Eight Hon.
A. J. MUNDELLA, M.P., Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Two New District Organising Secretaries
Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.
Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE RNLI'S ASSOCIATION with the Queen's Jubilee and with activities of the Royal Family during the Jubilee summer were widespread and colourful. On July 14 the Queen named the new Hartlepool lifeboat The Scout. This was the first...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...
Category: Services
A Yacht and a Motor Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Boy and Uncle Rescued By Boatman
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months September, October, and November, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND ILBs 1st September 1971 to 30th November 1971: Launches 1,535, lives saved 285 THE ACTIVE FLEET 138 station life-boats (as at 30/11/71) 36 inshore life-boats operating in the winter LIVES RESCUED 94...
Category: Services