LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rescue of sailor leaves no room for error When a lone sailor found himself in trouble in Runswick Bay last September, it took close cooperation between the crews of the Staithes and Runswick inshore lifeboat and the Whitby all-weather...
Obituary of the Years of the War, 1939 to 1945
DURING the war over 200 honorary workers and friends of the Institution died. Among them were three members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, killed in an aeroplane accident on active service, H.R.H....
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st January, 1880: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd Sept., 1868. Sir EDWARD PER- ROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Staying In Touch
STAYING IN TOUCH Are you a former RNLI station volunteer or staff member? The RNLI Family association can help you keep in touch if you are no longer so actively involved. When you join you’ll get a membership pack and two issues a year of...
Category: Articles
Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
Category: Articles
The Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held at the Lizard, Appledore, Peterhead, Brixham, Eastbourne and Bembridge. Of these, the Lizard boat went to her station in 1920, the Peter- head and Eastbourne...
Category: Inaugurations
The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M. on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found the brig- antine...
Category: Services