LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anonymous Gift
IN September the Institution received an anonymous gift of £10,000 from a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The gift was made, in the words of the donor, "in admiration of the magnificent work of the Institution" and as...
Category: Donations
In the Summer Issue of the Journal It Was Reported That Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline Accompanied Newcastle Circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's Yacht Ocean Bound In to Blyth for a Recepti
In the summer issue of the journal it was reported that Blyth lifeboat, RNLB Shoreline, accompanied Newcastle circumnavigator David Scott Cowper's yacht Ocean Bound in to Blyth for a reception at the Royal Northumberland Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
The Autumn 1990 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 513 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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Going for Broke
Walkers from Lloyds brokers Sneath Kent and Stuart took part in the 1991 Royal British Legion (Lloyds of London branch) city walk on 19 October to raise money for the Legion and the lifeboats.
To distinguish themselves from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 507 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MN1RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
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Daring
ABERDOVEY.—The Life-boat Royal Berkshire put off during a gale and rough sea, on the 7th September, and saved'the ketch Daring, of Barnstaple, which had been driven into Cardigan Bay. Her mainsail had been torn to ribbons; she was fast...
An Experimental Motor Life-Boat
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
Category: Articles
Her Majesty Queen Mary
BY the death of Her Majesty Queen Mary on the 24th of March, 1953, the Life-boat Service lost one of its three Royal Patrons. Queen Mary was the third of the five queens—Queen Vic- toria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (now the...
Category: Obituaries
Feature: Come See the Show
By the time this issue of the Lifeboat reaches you, the Schroders London International Boat Show 2004 will already be in full swing. This year's event, which runs from 8-18 January, is special for several reasons.
Not...
Category: Articles
The Fishing Boats- Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and Provider
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...