LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All In a Good Cause By Pat Dewhurst
Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
Category: Donations
Charity from the Workless
THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...
Category: Donations
Christmas Cards Can Be Ordered Now
The Institution will have three Christmas cards for sale this year. One will have a reproduction of Tintoretto's painting Christ on the Sea of Galilee'., one will have a reproduction of a specially commissioned painting by David Cobb...
Category: Advertisement
A New Royal Decoration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
Category: Articles
At the Blast of Royal National Life-Boat Institution Whistles, Teams of Women and Schoolgirls Drawn from Around Bournemouth and Poole Began Furiously Knitting Blanket Squares at Sponsored Kni
At the blast of Royal National Life-boat Institution whistles, teams of women and schoolgirls drawn from around Bournemouth and Poole began furiously knitting blanket squares at sponsored knitins held simultaneously at Beales of Poole and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Fishing Boats
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - YOUGHAL, CO.
CORK. At 8.55 in the morning a message came that four fishing boats in the harbour were in danger of being swamped. A northnorth- east gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor...
Five Medals for Wales.
Five bronze medals for gallantry have been won in Wales in the past three months.
Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, who has been the honorary secretary of St. David's life-boat...
Category: Articles
1974 Accounts Summary
Income General purpose legacies Subscriptions and donations Miscellaneous Restricted funds Expenditure Operational Technical Fund raising Administration Capital £000's 1,721 2,176 266 782 4,945 £000's 1,212 953 773 571...
Category: Accounts
Focus on . . . Salcombe
The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
Category: Articles
Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles