LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded a annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....
Category: Services
International Call...
The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...
Category: Meetings
Hot News from Yorkshire
This year's Great Yorkshire Show held in July must have been one of the hottest on record and many thousands of visitors travelled to Harrogate for this popular agricultural show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Anjn class lifeboat OM-1150 Hibtrntt Built 1989 Cost £600.000 Funding A very generous donation from the Irish Sailor* and Soldier* L*nd Truft. which also provided funding toward* th« running of lifeboat* in Ireland THE...
Category: Services
Record of Rescues In 1967
1967 month January February March April May June July August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 65 49 85 66 69 117 144 154 122 113 60 59 1,103 Lives saved by life-boats 25 25 67 23 67 98 67...
Category: Services
Royal favour
Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...
Category: Articles
Signals of Distress and for Pilots
In our last number, under the head of " Signals of Distress," we inserted a new scheme of day and night signals for pilot- age and distress, proposed by the Board of Trade. We now give a copy of those signals as contained in a...
Category: Articles
List of Successes In the Essay Competition
London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).
Name.
Age.
School.
William Bennett Freda Shine Thomas Gover .
Maureen Conway John...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1898
Lives 1898. saved.
Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...
Category: Services