LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Car
Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of .the: Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout...
Category: Advertisement
Griff’s hidden depths
He was once best known as a TV funnyman, but these days Griff Rhys Jones is serious about theatre, documentaries and indulging in his passion for sailing
Griff is enjoying treading the boards. After a spate of television...
Category: Articles
The Regulations of the Institution
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 25th, 1933 - - - 63,502 The Regulations of the Institution.<...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Service and the War
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...
Category: Articles
From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
Category: Articles
Auxiliary Rescue-boats
In 1941 the Air Ministry asked the Institution if it could open more stations on the west coast of Ireland for the help of aeroplanes which were forced down by bad weather, failure of fuel or injury in battle, as they flew in from the...
Category: Articles
Another Steam Life-Boat
IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
Category: Articles
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
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings