LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
Category: Services
Some Account of the Growth of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's Fleet Since the Re-Organization of the Society In 1850. II. (1873-1885.)
IN the Life-boat Journal for November, 1895, the development of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION'S fleet is traced for the twenty-two years which elapsed between 1850, when the Society had got into regular working order, and...
Category: Articles
South/Midlands/East Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: The Bedford Sixth Form, Elmfield School for the Deaf, RNLI/(Dereham Branch, Nathan Williams), Simon Trafford
Welcome to your community news for the South, Midlands and East. For the latest from...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
its appointed coxswain at a salary of 8/., and an assistant at 22. a year. The crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and wherever practicable,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society
THE Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is now in its eighth year. It was formed in 1964 and at the outset had only eight members. From this very small beginning membership has grown over the years. At first progress was slow, but in the last...
Category: Articles
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...
In Conference
Every four years the lifeboat nations of the world gather at a different venue to share and exchange information and technical expertise.
The 16th Conference was held in early June 1991 at Oslo.
Edward...
Category: Meetings
Ngalawa
Prompt action saves life of lone yachtsmanThe rescue of a lone yachtsman from seas off Hastings has earned assistant mechanic David Curtis the Thanks of the RNLI Inscribed on Vellum.In his official report, deputy divisional inspector of...
Functional Clothing Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat People
Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...
Category: Articles