LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes and News
THE Institution has now entered on the hundredth year of its existence. Its first century will actually be completed on 4th March, 1924. On that day, in 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, with the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Category: Articles
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
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.
Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
Pains-Wessex Schermuly
A stormy sea can very quickly become a cruel sea to a vessel in distress.
Crashing waves prevent rescue vessels getting alongside. And poor visibility can make yards seem like miles.
With the Pains-Wessex...
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Peter Glen (R) Cruise Director of Fred Olson Travel
During Poole Open Days, Peter Glen (r), cruise director of Fred Olson Travel, presented a cheque for £3,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution; with them is Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scotland Community News
Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news
Words: Anna Burn
Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI/(Lorraine Clark, Kinghorn, Stonehaven, Nettie...
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Lifeboat Crew Gear
Lifeboat crew gear It costs more than £400 to kit out a lifeboat crew member in protective gear (the equivalent of 26 new Shoreline members).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Grange Infants' School Invited Hartlepool Crew Members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to Visit Them In July
When Grange Infants' School invited Hartlepool crew members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to visit them in July it was to present them with a cheque for £712.58. The children had added up this impressive sum for the lifeboats with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News and Views
N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...
Category: Articles