LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Ways of Raising Money
Collecting house flags of various shipping lines is the hobby of Mr. C. M. Pope, who lives near Sherborne in Dorset. For each flag received he sends a contribution to the R.N.L.I., this "consideration money" amounting to an average...
Category: Donations
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Good Times in the London marathon Tony Williamson, the chairman of Littlehampton Branch is a keen marathon runner, and has already raised £1,300 for the Shoreham Lifeboat appeal when he competed in the New York...
Category: Articles
Arthur Lowe
It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.
Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...
Category: Obituaries
Hon Secretaries' Courses Under Way
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY S6t the ball rolling in June when around a dozen station honorary secretaries from those areas attended the first training course aimed specifically at their role within the RNLI.
Training officer...
Category: Articles
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans Unveiled for First Time
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans unveiled for first time Coxswain Richard Evans BEM of Moelf re is the subject of an RNLI-commissioned portrait which is to hang in a meeting room at Poole Headquarters.
The artist of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Head Protection (Continued from Page 265)
Head Protection (continued from page 265) including wind tunnel work; as a result an RNLI designed wrap around visor (see photograph, page 265) was found to offer the best combination of desirable optical properties and protection. NRDC has...
Category: Articles
Marathon Effort
The Flora London Marathon is one of the UK’s most breathtaking fundraising events and this year 200 people ran as part of Team RNLI. Their combined and considerable efforts raised approximately £300,000, most of which will go towards...
Category: Articles
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
Category: Articles
National Life-Boat Institution. Services of Its Life-Boats During 1859
SERVICES OF ITS LIFE-BOATS DURING 1859.
FROM the annexed tabular statement it will be seen that during the year which has just ceased the life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have, at various points of...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Builders By Tradition
THE firm of J, Samuel White & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, has been building ships in the Isle of Wight for more than two and a half centuries. During the greater part of that time the firm has been closely associated with the Life- boat...
Category: Articles