LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rose Valley, of Wick
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.2 p.m. on 2nd May, 1966, it was reported that a small fishing boat was drifting on to rocks at St. John's Point, Mey. Thelife-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 6.30 in a slight south...
Notes on the Quarter
A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life- Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
{The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-hoats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 126. Draper, Daniel J., Life-boat Hounsfield, Mrs., 78. Peach, Misses Frances and A. F. H.. 133. Fund, 136. [late, 141. Howard...
Category: Donations
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE...
Category: Advertisement
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
Letters to the Editor
SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
Category: Correspondence
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addresses the audience at the afternoon Annual Presentation of Awards.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long-Standing Supporters of the RNLI
THIS is the third feature describing companies which have given the R.N.L.I.
valuable financial support over a number of years.
9 Colvilles Ltd., of Glasgow, which is now the Colvilles Division of the...
Category: Donations
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles looks at the RNLI's plans for the future and at a busy and memorable 1993In any generation, improvements in the lifeboat service can always be achieved, and the recognition that tomorrow we should aim to be better than...
Category: Articles
Other Inaugural Ceremonies
Hythe, Rcsslare Harbour, Berwick-on-Tweed, St. Mary's, Campbeltown and TroonBESIDES the four Inaugural Ceremonies, already described, in which members of the Royal Family took part, five Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held...
Category: Inaugurations