LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat, Song, and Duet
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is indubitably not a, romance, but one of hard practical fact. The Institution has nought to do with " Dreamland," but its mission is, from our rugged and storm-beaten shores, to...
Category: Songs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th October, 1891.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...
Category: Committee
Stormy Stan Says...
I'm Stormy Stan,} Lifeboatman Extraordinary from Storm force, the RNLI's club for the under 16s - Eric the seagull and I are always to be seen in the club's exclusive magazine, Storm force News.
As well as...
Category: Articles
Wrestling With the Raging Sea
The RNLI provides its volunteers with the best lifeboats, equipment and training for the job, and so it must. But sometimes, nothing is a match for the sheer ferocity of NatureWhen a lifeboat crew launch to the rescue, their own safety is...
Category: Articles
Captain Roy Harding Trials Officer Rnli
Captain Roy Harding, trials officer RNLI. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Peter E. - View image in PDF
Hadfield. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker
It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...
Category: Articles
Computers Made Easy
“This is the best book on computing I’ve ever come across – and I’ve read a few! Now I’m getting the most out of my computer!” G Edwards, London “I keep your book right on my desk. Because whenever I’ve got a problem with using my computer –...
Category: Advertisement
‘ THEY WERE UTTERLY FROZEN’
When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: James Cracknell
WHO IS JAMES CRACKNELL?
When he retired from competitive rowing in 2006, James Cracknell OBE had two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles under his belt. In the same year, he and TV presenter/adventurer Ben Fogle...
Category: Articles
The Oxford Branch
AN Oxford Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was formed in 1900 by the late Commander Maunsell, R.N., and Mr. Belcham, Headmaster of St. Peter-iu-the-East School, who still takes a keen interest in the work of the Institution. By means...
Category: Articles