LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Workers Honoured
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards
Some Ways of Raising Money
During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...
Category: Donations
People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In the Midlands and South Wales
A Life-boat Tour Through Sixteen Counties.
IN the Midlands and Wales the Cen- tenary was celebrated by a road tour of one of the Institution's reserve Life- boats, the Robert & Catherine, which for a number of...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
North West passage Captain Patrick Roberts undertook a sponsored windsurf from Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to Ramsey on the Isle of Man.
The sail started at 1pm in light winds and sunshine, but the wind soon died...
Category: Articles
THE YEARS OF THEIR LIVES
Recognising our people’s achievements – as well as reporting our progress – has always been at the heart of the RNLI’s annual meetings. But how we do that has changed with the times, and is about to change again …
Category: Articles
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Mersey class lifeboat ON-1166 Lincolnshire Poacher Cost £460,221 Funding Provided by a major donation to The Lincolnshire Lifeboat Appeal by the John and Lucille Van Geett Charitable Trust THE CREW Coxswain/Mechanic J...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SERVICES OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
LLANELLY, SOUTH Witis—On the 7 January, 1867, intelligence was received here that a vessel was amongst the breakers on the Towyn Sands with signals of...
Category: Services
Profiles
FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.
Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...
Category: Articles
Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
Category: Articles