LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Volunteers are very much at the heart of the RNLI. The charity's lifesaving service could not exist without their passion and relies on an army of willing helpers to go out in lifeboats, to fundraise, to promote safety and...
Category: Articles
A Trip In the Walmer Life-Boat
(This article appeared in Home Chat on the 29th of August, 1953.
It is reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.) THREE or four years ago, in the course of a television programme transmitted one summer's evening...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st May, 1884.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read the following letter from Sir WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home...
Category: Committee
New Members for R.N.L.I. Committee of Management
Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Committee
Coxswain John Catchpole of Lowestoft
Coxswain John Catchpole of Lowestoft joined the crew in 1973 and was second coxswain from 1978 until his appointment as coxswain in 1984.
A framed letter of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution was awarded to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vellum awards
Brighton Helm Mark Smith has been accorded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for his part in saving a man’s life in near-gale conditions on 26 May 2011.
The man had gone overboard from the yacht...
Category: Articles
An Epilogue to the Loss of Solomon Browne from Dr D W L Leslie Chairman Penlee Station Branch
MOUSEHOLE VILLAGE and harbour just west of Penzance is famous for its display of Christmas lights—an enterprise supported by the whole village and particularly by the Penlee lifeboat crew. Last year Charles Greenhaugh, as chairman of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Photographs. At York, Bradford, Sunderland and Leeds
THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which has already been shown in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham has, during the latter part of the year, been on a tour of the North-East of England, and has been shown at York, Bradford, Sunderland...
Category: Articles