LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IMPORTANT alterations having been made in the Life-Boat Regulations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION since they were many years ago published in this Journal, we again insert them for the information of our...

The RNLI is recruiting a new Vice Chair as part of plans to find a successor to our current Chairman, Charles Hunter-Pease. Charles has stated his intention to retire in 2017, after what will have been 4 years of dedicated and inspirational...

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For so many people, the lifeboat service is synonymous with those who risk their lives, putting out to sea to save others. Here, RAY KIPLING, Assistant Director of the RNLI, takes a look at the less glamorous, but equally important role...

THE Astronomer Royal (Sir George B. Airy) in liis recent report states—amongst other in- teresting subjects—that the mean temperature of 1880 was 49-4 deg., being O'l deg. above the average of the preceding 39 years. The highest...

Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.

Mowat and the Crew of the...

From a Boy of Seven.

The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in...

Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.

BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted...