LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Len Patten and His Crew Give Three Cheers for Mrs Anderson
Coxswain Len Patten and his crew give three cheers for Mrs Anderson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SAVING LIVES AT SEA IS A BIG HIT
Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Cornish Open-Air Service
AN open-air service was held in Newlyn Harbour on the 26th of September, 1954. The Penlee life-boat W. & S.
was tied up in the harbour and it was from the deck of the life-boat that the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P., a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Management.
Thursday, 21st January, 192S.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Reported the resignation of Captain SELWYN H. DAY, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.R., from the Committee of...
Category: Committee
Guy and Clare Hunter In Gale Force Winds Standing By the \Acht Braemar Before Taking Her In Tow May 22 1967
Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five New Life-Boats Named
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
Category: Articles
Commemorative Items and Events During 1974 By Joan Davies
ON MARCH 4, 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, presided over by Dr Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at which it was resolved to form the body which has since come to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Cleethorpes' D Class Lifeboat During the Fruitless Search on a Bitterly Cold Night on 25 February
Cleethorpes' D class lifeboat during the fruitless search on a bitterly cold night on 25 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs