LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
A Hundred Years Ago
WE believe that a life-belt, for an adult person of average size, ought to have, at the least, buoyant power equal to 20 Ibs., and as much more as can conveniently be obtained.
Having decided on the amount of buoyancy, the...
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Right Way Up' the Rnli Exhibition Held at the Science Musuem Kensington This Summer Was Opened By Jimmy Savile Obe He Is Seen (Right) With Richard Oakley
'Right Way Up', the RNLI exhibition held at the Science Musuem, Kensington, this summer, was opened by Jimmy Savile, OBE. He is seen (right) with Richard Oakley, MBE, (r.) designer of the first modern selfrighting lifeboat, the37ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fathers and Sons: Richard and Andrew Tollett Both Crew Members of Rye Harbour
Fathers and sons: Richard and Andrew Tollett, both crew members of Rye Harbour D class inflatable lifeboat, are the first Rye father and son to go out on service together since complete families were lost in the lifeboat disaster of 1928.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fundraising
Selling gifts and souvenirs is an excellent way of raising both funds and the profile of the lifeboat service. RNLI (Sales) provides a range of products for the wide variety of shops and events run by volunteers. In 2001 its turnover was...
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The English Sea Fisheries
THE sea fisheries of this country cannot but be a subject of interest to every one, •whether living on the sea-coast or inland, but more particularly must they be so to the friends of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, because of the...
Category: Articles
"A Fisherman's Yarn"
IN 1948 Mr. Paul Rotha made for the Institution a twenty-minute film, with music and a running commentary, which was to show the Life-boat Service from the point of view of the fishermen from whom its crews are drawn. It was taken at...
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Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn Known to Everyone As Maudie Comes from a Seafaring Family and Has Given So Much Help to the Lifeboat Service Over Many Years Th
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Every Year Many Delegates from Overseas Are Welcomed at Rnli Headquarters Poole One Page from the Visitors' Book Covering Just Three Weeks In March 1979 Re
Every year many delegates from overseas are welcomed at RNLI headquarters, Poole. One page from the visitors' book, covering just three weeks in March, 1979, records signatures of 12 visitors from the USA, Chile, China and the United... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs