LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
Best Wreck Service of the Year. Three Scottish Life-Saving Companies Share Prize
LIFE-SAVING Apparatus Companies in the Hebrides and the Shetland Isles share the award of the Minister of Transport's shield for the best wreck service of the year 1963-4. The shield will be held for six months by the Port Ellen and Mull...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Lock
The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...
An Ex-Coxswain's Gallantry
COXSWAIN THACKSTON CRAFTS, a boat- man of Southsea, was coxswain of the Southsea life-boat from 1893, seven vears after the station was opened, until it was closed in 1918, when he retired, being awarded a coxswain's certificate of...
Category: Articles
Oscar,the St. Nicholas Light-ship, a Steamer, a Trawler
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Mr. Edward Heath on a Visit to the R.N.L.I, Stand at the International Boat Show In London In 1968. a Letter In His Capacity As Prime Minister Is Reproduced on the Facing Page. Last Year He Was Ele
Mr. Edward Heath on a visit to the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show in London in 1968. A letter in his capacity as Prime Minister is reproduced on the facing page. Last year he was elected Yachtsman of the Year by the Guild of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Come take a look
RNLI open days give supporters the chance to get up close and personal with state-ofthe- art lifeboats and the volunteers who crew them.
The charity’s Headquarters and Lifeboat College in Poole open their doors to the...
Category: Articles
The Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution
AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...
Category: Branches
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE history of the Institution is now being written, and will be published in the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
AMONG companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years are a firm of naval tailors in Harwich, a Leeds brewery, and a Leith firm of shipowners, exporters and importers.
• The Harwich...
Category: Donations