LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Honours for Hugh
On Friday 6 March, Her Majesty the Queen handed Captain Hugh Fogarty his MBE at...
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The Humber Lightvessel
POLICE PUT ABOARD Hiunber, Yorkshire. At 12.39 p.m. on i3th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man was missing from the Humber lightvessel and that the master of the lightvessel had asked for the help of...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
OBVERSE.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
Category: Medals
The Passenger Ferry Laerling
Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...
RACE TO THE RESCUE
After a fishing boat capsized in seconds just outside Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, two volunteer crew members had to improvise if they were to respond in time …
Coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke...
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Wild is the wind
The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...
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The Central Appeals Committee
SPONSORED WALK OVER £35,000 has been raised so far by the National Sponsored Walk organised by the Central Appeals Committee which took place on Sunday, 18th April, 1971. By the time all the money has been received—40 branches have...
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Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
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