LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Designing for the Future
At the time this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is published the Mersey, the RNLI's latest class of lifeboat, will be on show to the public at the London Boat Show in Earls Court.
in this article Keith Thatcher, one of the...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
120 years at Walmer
Walmer Lifeboat Station is celebrating the dedication of three volunteers who, between them, have over 120 years
of service....
Category: Articles
The Auxiliary Yawl Sheenan
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.56 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yawl was making distress signals about two and a half miles to the eastward, and at 4.45 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at...
The Seven Stones Lightvessel
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Pen:sance Superintendent of Trinity House telephoned that the wife of the master of the Seven Stones lightvessel was seriously ill and asked if the life-boat would...
The Life-Boat Men
God bless the Life-boat men 1 Long live the noble men! God bless the men I And may they ever be, When tossed on stormy sea, In safety kept by Thee.
God bless the men! They count not their lives dear, Brave hearts that do...
Category: Poetry
Drawing the Crowds
Judi Spiers, presenter of the BBC's daily programme 'Pebble Mill', drew the winning tickets of the 61st national lottery at RNLI headquarters in Poole on 30 April 1993.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Yacht Seafarer
AUGUST 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. The American yacht Seafarer grounded on the Goodwin Sands, but refloated and was taken in tow by the Ramsgate life-boat. - Rewards, £20 5s..
Rescue on the Bar
MR. SIDNEY HOOK, a local pilot and member of the inshore rescue scheme at Teignmouth, Devon, has been awarded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, and Mr. Samuel G. Hook and Mr. James P. Boyne have been presented with vellum...
Category: Services
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1989 The Annual General Meeting Presentation of Awards for 1988Once again the RNLI's annual meetings - held at the South Bank in London on 16 May - were able to reflect on a very successful 12 months for the...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
Category: Articles