LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
Category: Articles
Manic Monday
RNLI lifeguards were busy throughout Summer 2010 and, for those in north Cornwall, the most challenging day came right at the end of the season
Fine weather attracted thousands of Bank Holiday...
Category: Articles
A Novel Life-Saving Dress
THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.
During every summer, distressing ac- counts...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—It will be remembered that in the last number of the Life-boat Journal we mentioned that the boat on this Station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the latest self-righting type provided for from the legacy of...
Category: Inaugurations
Lasting Legacies
The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.
Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1898.
Sir EDWARD BIBKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
A Manx Tale
The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
HISTORIC LIFEBOATS
In the winter issue, we listed some places to see historic lifeboats. There are a lot of them out there, and we couldn’t mention them all, but some of you wrote in with further...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1888.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
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