LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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TWO CHILDREN ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 24th November, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that there were two sick children who needed hospital treatment. One had appendicitis and the other had a dangerous cut on his leg. As no...
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
Category: Articles
The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey
IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries
The Boulmer Women
THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.
Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...
Category: Articles
Straining Under the Weight of a Giant Bottle
Straining under the weight of a giant bottle full of money for the RNLI is Mike Fisher, landlord of The Wise Man, West Stafford, Dorset. When it was cracked open by Vic Pitman (/.), coxswain ofWeymouth lifeboat, it was found to contain £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. Thos. Baring, M.P., Chairman of the Institution
THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Drifter Yankee Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8 P.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light. A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The s.s. Innisfallen was in sight and as...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
Category: Meetings
Below: the Image of the Lifeboat Service That Was Most Commonly Chosen By the School Children Who Were Interviewed.
Below: The image of the lifeboat service that was most commonly chosen by the school children who were interviewed. The school children were given a number of different pictures representing ideas of the RNLI and the reality.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Historic Moment: The Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Making Contact With Sir Francis Chichester's Yacht Gypsy Moth IV As She Neared the English Coast on 28th, May 1967, After her Voyage Round the World
Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs