LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Martlet
It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...
Marks and Spencer
On the day that Murks and Spencer opened up its new first floor sti/es area in Pottle, a cheque for £10,000 was handed over to the RNLI and the store also helped faithful customer Mrs Lucy Baker celebrate her y/.v/ birlhdav. The company... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew
Awards for saving drowning man...
Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Lottery
ifeboat Will you win in Winter? Tickets for the Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery are available from 16 October-15 December 2006, with the draw taking place on 5 January 2007. If you don't already receive tickets regularly, please call 0845...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvarte.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, It mlnnte letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness." Reverie.—Three...
Category: Medals
Books
• John Kennedy served as honorary secretary at the Lytham lifeboat station from 1951 to 1976 and from this position he was able to observe every facet of the life of the station. He has now put pen to paper and the result is one of the most...
Category: Articles
Lord Kitchener Named at Walmer
Brisk winds did not spoil the sunshine in Walmer on 11 May when 200 guests attended the naming of the station's new D class lifeboat.
Len Stephens, honorary treasurer of the Welling branch handed the lifeboat over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classifieds
R DVD NEW! HEALTH Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RNLI's latest all weather and inshore lifeboats Tamar and Atlantic 85 Please send this slip with a cheque payable to _ RNLI(Enterpnses) Ltd to Image Resource...
Category: Advertisement
Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...
Category: Committee