LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Brawn leader
He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.
Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Margate's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat.
Margate's Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Percy Garron II, enpying slightly more favourable weather than that of late October 1999-. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1869
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current year:— (vide last page for this list,) 2,—Moved by Admiral Sir GEORGE SAR- TORIUS, K.C.B.,...
Category: Meetings
Mark Bates
Mark Bates, coxswain of Kilmore Quay lifeboat from 1950 to 1966, who was awarded the silver medal of the RNLI in 1958 for the rescue of the crewof 10 of a French trawler in December, 1957..
Category: Obituaries
Weathering the storm
As the recession continues, your support for the RNLI is more important than ever.
Six out of ten lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to legacy gifts. While we expect the number of gifts to increase over the coming...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee
Bronze Medal for Norfolk Second Coxswain
AT half past nine on the evening of Saturday the 18th May, 1963, the Wells coastguard told the honorary secretary, Dr. E. W. Hicks, that a cabin cruiser was aground at the entrance to Blake- ney harbour.
The life-boat Cecil...
Category: Services
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
People and Places
Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
Category: Articles