LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lord Killanin,
April 1999 The Lord Killanin, a Life Vice President of the RNLI. The Lord Killanin joined the Committee of Management in 1959 and was appointed a Vice President in 1972 and a Life Vice President in 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spot the Difference
The above photograph shows Skerries Hfeboat crew member. Mart,n O'Toole wfth Storm Force hero, Stormy Stan at have been a bit of a role model for Stan, has been on the crew since the D class was stat,oned in Skerries in the early... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winning Touch
.ie RNLI's competition to find photos to help launch its 175th Anniversary Year , at the London Boat Show in January produced some stunning shots. The six winners are reproduced here - the overall winner gets £150 of photographic...
Category: Articles
The Western Lightship
JANUARY 7TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the evening of the 6th of January the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was asked by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for the services of the life-boat to...
The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the life-boat stations at Cromer and Sheringham on 23rd May, met Coxswain Henry Blogg and Coxswain James Dumble and their crews, and saw the Sheringham life-boat launched.
Category: Articles
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
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
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi 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
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations