LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
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Buried Treasure!
Buried Treasure! Ron Warner, treasurer of Sennen Cove guild, is always looking for ways to raise RNLI funds - his latest venture, a treasure hunt, raised over £650. Using a large map of Derbyshire, Ron sectioned it off into cross... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fund Raisers
Taking the plunge Thirty-six volunteers made their first parachute jump from 2,000 feet at the Al Skydiving Centre, Newnham in June and three weeks later Jim Marriott, landlord of the Ship Inn and organiser of the jump handed a cheque for...
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For Those In Peril on the High Street
A new' mascot' for the Eastbourne branch was unveiled when lifeboatmen boarded a completely different form of transport.
Eastbourne Buses has boosted publicity for the local lifeboat by having one of its buses... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat House, Wembley
THE Institution took advantage of the fortunate coincidence that the British Empire Exhibition has been held in its Centenary Year, to erect its own house in the. Exhibition grounds. Life-boat House, Wembley, was very appro- priately placed...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
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Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
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