LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
House Style
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic.
Resources were scarce...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crossword—3
The winner of the January crossword—there was only one correct solution submitted—was: Mr. F. Ackroyd, 68 Horncastle Road, Boston, Lines. Solution to crossword was: Across: 1-Lifeboatman; 7-Banana, 8-Align, 9-Nod, 12-Emmie, 13-Parody,...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Steamer "Duke of Sutherland."
ON the 1st of April in the present year occurred one of those fearful wrecks which ever and anon startle even the inhabitants of these sea-girt islands, accustomed as they have been from time immemorial to the periodical sacrifice, by...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION, have been awarded to: RICHARD LEE, 21J years coxswain, 7J years second coxswain and 3J years bowmam of the Douglas...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat
IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.
We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...
Category: Poetry
Ireland's Influence
IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not...
Category: Articles
News
Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
Category: Articles
If Only They Were All This Easy to Launch
'If only they were all this easy to launch...' RNLI staff watch the launch of one of the scale models of a proposed new lifeboat design at the Institution's Poole HQ in March. Pictured are (from left to right behind model): Lt... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY., 1st Jan., 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., F.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the. Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Centenary of Two Life-Boat Stations. Boulmer, Northumberland; Appledore, Devon
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
Category: Articles