LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
SPECIAL DELIVERY
'ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING’
I thought you might be interested to know that my painting of the shipping forecast, entitled 'Attention All Shipping', was awarded top prize in a competition run by the British...
Category: Articles
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
A Hint to Sailors. A Remarkable Bequest By a Military Pensioner
serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
Category: Articles
Fictional Ennui's Point Coxswain Jack Tustin
Fictional Ennui's Point coxswain. Jack Tustin played by Philip Madoc (I), and factual Mumbles coxswain, Derek Scott, together 'aboard' the mock-up stern cabin on display at Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girl Power
Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...
Category: Articles
(Below) Les Vipond (I) Supervises Man Overboard Drill
(below) Les Vipond (I) supervises man overboard drill.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
Category: Annual Reports