LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Daughter of the R.N.L.I. Organiser In Conway Has Been Knitting Attractive Little Woolly Hats for Sale at 6s. 11d
The daughter of the R.N.L.I. organiser in Con-way has been knitting attractive little woolly hats for sale at 6s. lid. in aid of the life-boat service. Last year she raised £6 from this source—and a picture of the hat being worn is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Past Explained:
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SEPTEMBER 17TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW. Red lights had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10.
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (20)
SEPT. 18TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as her services were not needed. - Rewards, £12 5s..
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Books
Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .
Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...
Category: Articles