LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St.Stephen's Day swim
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St Stephen's Day swim. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 12.50 early on the morning of the 14th of July, 1955, the Civic Guard at Bannow telephoned that two Bannow men had put out in a fishing boat at eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th, but had not been heard of...
Craddock
Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.14 on the night of the 11th of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed six to seven miles east-south-east of the Newarp lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henry...
New Member of Committee of Management
LORD KILLANIN has been co-opted as a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution. He had extensive journalistic experience before the last war, and during the war he served as an officer of the Queen's Westminsters. He is a...
Category: Committee
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1990 The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards for 1989 The RNLI's 1990 Annual General meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on the South Bank in London on May 22, were again well attended by...
Category: Meetings
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies: A Correction
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1898
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Gross Road, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, 1898, His Grace the DUKE OF LEEDS in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
Life-Boat Services of the World: Belgium
By E. Pierrard, Director-General for the Belgian Marine Administration.THE establishment of the Service for the Saving of the Shipwrecked on the Belgian coast dates from 1838, when the Belgian Government decided to provide an organization....
Category: Articles
Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...
Category: Articles
Royal favour
Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...
Category: Articles