LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
October
Launches 50 Lives rescued 116 OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Focus on Lytham-St. Anne's
IT is doubtful whether any other life-boat station in the British Isles could claim such a beginning. For the Lytham-St. Anne's station, in Lancashire, which is responsible for a conventional life-boat, an IRB, a tractor and two boarding...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
Books
• Ever since John Corin retired from his job as public relations officer at the Port of Bristol in 1981 and returned to his native Cornwall, he has been actively publicising the RNLI. He revised and expanded the Penlee station history which...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Category: Services
Healthspan
Good nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy lifespan.
From the day we are born,good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways that each of us can help ourselves to a...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter,) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
A Year on the front line
All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.
RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
STARS IN OUR TIME OF DARKNESS
The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front
This year, we celebrate...
Category: Articles