LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Empress of the French
BUT a few days since the British public were startled by the intelligence that the Empress of the French and her royal son, the Prince Imperial, had nearly lost their lives by drowning, on the coast of France.
We will...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Service In the East End of London
THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck Register and Chart of 1859
IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...
Category: Articles
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Next generation join dads on Douglas crew
Douglas Lifeboat Station, Isle of Man, has a history of lifeboating families. Sir William Hillary, who founded the...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Norfolk With Some of Her Workers at the Mansion House In 1924, Personalities at a Gala Performance In Aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, Between the Wars, and Th
The Duchess of Norfolk with some of her workers at the Mansion House in 1924, personalities at a gala performance in aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, between the wars, and three jovial flag-sellers at London Life-boat Day,...
Category: Articles
The Late Captain Nigel Dixon Obe Rn Director Rnli
The late Captain Nigel Dixon, OBE RN, Director, RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
Category: Articles
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Lytham - St. - Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.32 in the evening, on the 17th of November, 1950, the police telephoned that the S.S. Empire Gaelic had wire- lessed them. She had heard cries for help from the marshes near the third mile light on...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Andy
Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the St.
Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.
of the Head was making signals of distress...
A Message from the Chairman of the RNLI Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
THOSE who receive THE LIFE-BOAT do so, in the main, for services rendered to the R.N.L.I., as crew members, branch officials, members of the YLA or in other capacities. Our appeal for national membership is not therefore addressed to...
Category: Articles