LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Message from the Director
By the time this letter is published I will have succeeded Rear Admiral Graham as director and secretary of the RNLI.
It is a tremendous honour and a considerable challenge to have been appointed by the committee of...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
Feature: the Tamar Unleashed
It was the day when two of the RNLI's most significant projects crossed paths: the Institution's latest lifeboat was on trial at a unique new facility. Previously, the launching of a Tamar lifeboat on a slipway had only been...
Category: Articles
Letters
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
The Finnish Lifeboat Service
SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
Category: Articles
PLAYING SAFE
Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place
Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
Category: Advertisement
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DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing...
Mrs Catherine Patterson Vice-President of Anstruther Ladies' Guild and Coxswain Peter Murray Handover a Cheque for £4700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council the Money Was Rai
Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings