Richard Dimbleby who died on the 22nd December, 1965 at the age of 52 was an active supporter and friend of the life-boat service. To a man, such as he was, of great personal courage and deep sincerity and with a passionate interest in...
Category: Obituaries
The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.
For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...
Category: Advertisement
ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...
Category: Articles
1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.
Lifeboats were at sea...
Category: Articles
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
Category: Meetings
Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
Category: Poetry
IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Kent's first visit on Orkney on May 10 was to Longhope where he laid a wreath at the memorial to the eight lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the disaster of 1969. The Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen Mother in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant visited South Wales at the end of November, Mrs Farrant presented a ship''s bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the crew of the Barry 52' lifeboat Arun. It was to commemorate the first visit she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In 1924, the RNLI celebrated its 100th birthday. It was not alone in the world as a lifeboat service, and foreign friends came to the UK to join the festivities. This gathering was so successful that it was made a regular event, with a...
Category: Articles