LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...
Category: Donations
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...
Category: Articles
Goodbye and Good Luck Dave!
Goodbye and good luck Dave! Retiring Port Talbot station honorary secretary, Dave Aubrey (pictured left) hands the reins over to his successor Robert Harris. Dave has served the Institution for over 30 years, 24 of them as station honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kirkwall Grammar School
Michael Forsyth, a pupil of Kirkwall Grammar School, hands over a cheque for £78.80 to Captain M. S. Work, honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station, on board the 70ft Clyde class lifeboat, Grace Paterson Ritchie. The money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It's a Small World.
It's a small world. Reader S.
Johnson discovered that the custodian of Ivan Talley (an ex-RNLI lifeboat now working in New Zealand) was a friend of a relative.
His grandsons are pictured aboard the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fast Work
The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...
Category: Articles
Talking With Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney By Joan Davies
LISTEN TO Dr Sydney Peace and, underlying all that he says, you will hear the ring of his abiding love of the sea. You will also hear the echoes of his deep respect of all seafaring people and in particular for the lifeboatmen of Orkney,...
Category: Articles
(Below) the Minesweeper Hms Thrifty Tows Three Lifeboats to Dunkirk. They Are Believed to Be Southend, Walmer and Hythe. See Philip Jull's Letter 'Under Tow', Left.
(Below) The minesweeper HMS Thrifty tows three lifeboats to Dunkirk. They are believed to be Southend, Walmer and Hythe. - View image in PDF
See Philip Jull's letter 'Under Tow', left.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs