LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam Life-Boat for South Holland
THE South Holland Life-boat Society was so pleased with the result of its inquiries as to the success of the NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION'S Steam Life-boats that it recently instructed Messrs. J. I. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick,...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Money for old clothes
Look out for RNLI textile collection bags coming through UK letterboxes this Summer. Fill them up with your unwanted clothes and Local Community Recycling Services Ltd will recycle them on our behalf.
A 5-month pilot and a...
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Rnli News
Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...
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News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1939
1st August to 31st October, 1939.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.
COVENT GARDEN.—The branch has suffered a serious loss by the death of Mr.
Bert Monro, who had...
Category: Branches
Membership News
Every little extra helps - covenants explained One of the messages we are constantly trying to put across is that all members should consider 'covenanting' their membership subscription.
Undoubtedly, the vast...
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JOINT RESPONSE
A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night
Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....
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Going for Broke
Walkers from Lloyds brokers Sneath Kent and Stuart took part in the 1991 Royal British Legion (Lloyds of London branch) city walk on 19 October to raise money for the Legion and the lifeboats.
To distinguish themselves from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860
FOE the past nine years we have periodically called public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the Seas of the United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament.
It is...
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AUG. 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help.
The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken, a member of the committee, on board,...