LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How the Money Comes: How the Money Goes
IT comes daily from all parts of the British Isles, and not a week passes without bringing some gift from over- seas. It comes in all forms, from cheques and postal orders, to boxes of coins and packets of foreign stamps for the Institution...
Category: Donations
Membership News
Active Membership The growth of our active membership continues to be encouraging, and at 13 September 1989 consisted of 149,076 adults, (24,743 Governors and 124,333 Shoreline) with Storm Force reaching 9,592 individuals and 144 groups.<...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
OBVERSE.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
Category: Medals
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
Category: Donations
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...
Category: Contents
Cornish Correspondent By John Corin
Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...
Category: Articles
Scotland: Community News
Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest rescue and fundraising stories from where you are, head to RNLI.org/NewsCentre
Category: Articles
Port Talbot
Crew Member Ron Jones, (c), of Port Talbot completed the Afan half marathon recently and thanks to the support of his friends collected £93 in sponsorship. Receiving the cheque is his station honorary secretary, David Aubrey, with (I)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tusker Rock Joint Rescue
FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...
Category: Services