LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th December. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.j F.R.S., V.P.i in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes at the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees of the ROYAL...
Category: Committee
More Than 50 Hardy Walkers Set Off on a 20 Mile Trek from Whitstable Harbour
More than 50 hardy walkers set off on a 20 mile trek from Whitstable harbour to boost funds for the planned extension to the boathouse. Chairman of the fund raising committee, Mrs Linda Livingstone, organised the sponsored walk to Faversham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Great International Fisheries Exhibition
ALTHOUGH it is not in our power, from want of space, in the present Number of the Life-boat Journal, or, indeed, in any one Number, to notice adequately this truly great "International Exhibition," the intimate connection of the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...
Category: Services
All lifeboats great and small
Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
Category: Articles
During the International Boat Show at Earls Court a Giant Lifeboatshaped Cheque for £110000 Towards Newhaven's Future Waveney Class Lifeboat Was Presented to the R
During the International Boat Show at Earls Court a giant lifeboatshaped cheque for £110,000, towards Newhaven's future Waveney class lifeboat, was presented to the RNLI by the Round Table. (I. to r.) Dinah May, Miss Great Britain,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Celebration for Some of the Swimmers Who Successfully Completed a Relay Swim Across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle It Took the Party of Children and Adults Two Hours and Six Minut
A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
Category: Articles
The Prime Minister Mr Edward Heath Meets Sergeant F C Elverson Aged 70 a Chelsea Pensioner at the RNLI Stand at the International Boat Show for the Secon
The Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, meets Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 70, a Chelsea Pensioner, at the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show. For the second year running Sgt.
Elverson worked indefatigably on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Touring Headquarters After the Third Lotterydraw June Whitfield Said How Much She Would Like to Go Out In a Lifeboat Arrangements Were Made for Her and Terry Scott
Touring headquarters after the third lotterydraw, June Whitfield said how much she would like to go out in a lifeboat. Arrangements were made for her and Terry Scott to go out on trials of the 50ft Thames class lifeboat which will be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs