LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Receipts and Payments—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1957
1956 £ 185,858 286 40,479 9,808 386 42,575 12,631 2,596 3,360 61,162 2,571 58,591 295,408 4,205 731 744 2,571 8,251 12,416 38,444 50,860 50,360 9,315 47,145 1,574 967 1,409 60,410 24,072 4,460 328 28,860 494,149 PAYMENTS LIFE-BOATS :—...
Category: Accounts
Excel, of Dover
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 13th December the motor vessel Excel, of Dover, left Ramsgate for London. On board were the owner, his two daughters and son. The Excel ran into bad weather, her engine broke down, and she was driven...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk.— A three-masted schooner, the Six Sisters, of Hull, was anchored...
Category: Services
The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
Category: Articles
Five Canoes and a Yacht
Awards for helmsman and crew members of Cleethorpes D class A service by Cleethorpes' D class inflatable in winds of up to storm Force 10 to five canoeists and a yacht has earned the helmsman, David Steenvoorden, the Institution's...
Last word
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Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
ANNUAL Meeting of the London members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Life-boat Day organizers, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
RNLI Family: The life of the charity. Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
ALL GROWN UP
Back in 2012, photographer Nigel Millard took a picture of the children of Tobermory’s crew trying on their parents’ kit. Almost 5 years later, the station recreated the iconic shot. Alexander Anderson (second...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
Tenby's Tyne Class Lifeboat Rfa Sir Galahad Pictured With Her Royal Fleet Auxiliary Namesake Sir Galahad the Lifeboat Is Named to Commemorate the Rfa Ship L
Tenby's Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad, pictured with her Royal Fleet Auxiliary namesake Sir Galahad. The lifeboat is named to commemorate the RFA ship lost during the Falklands conflict (Photo Gareth Davies). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs