LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contributions from Shipping Companies
THE following shipowners have sent contributions to the Institution as a result of its placing the services of the Institution before them, after the crews of their vessels had been rescued by Life-boats. The first list of such contributions...
Category: Donations
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of October and November, 1864
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, are shown in the annexed diagram, including 46 days, ending the 30th of November, daring which period...
Category: Articles
Focus on . . . Ilfracombe
When the maroons are fired at Ilfracombe, on the North Devon Coast, everyone has a good chance of seeing the new life-boat, Lloyd's II, which is kept in the life-boat house below Lantern Hill, going on its carriage through the heart of...
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The Duchess Is Pictured Above Unveiling A Bronze Bust Of Whitby’s Most Famous Lifeboatman Henry Freeman
The Duchess of Kent opened the new lifeboat station at Whitby on 7 September. She also named the station’s latest D class inshore lifeboat OEM Stone III. Photo: RNLI/Tony Roddam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Recycling raises £185,000
You can do your bit for the planet while raising funds for the RNLI. Recycle your old mobile phones, printer cartridges and gadgets (such as satnavs and digital cameras) with The Recycling Factory, and the company will make a donation to the...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent at Penlee
WHEN the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, made a tour of Corn- wall in May, she visited the life-boat station at Penlee. She was received there by Mr. Barrie Bennetts, M.B.E., the honorary secretary, who holds the...
Category: Articles
The Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. Sellers
Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
Eight Lloyds Bank Staff from Petersfield Branch Their Friends and Customers Together With An East Hampshire Post
Eight Lloyds Bank staff from Petersfield branch, their friends and customers together with an East Hampshire Post reporter made a sponsored parachute jump last April.
The adventurous group, who raised £750 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition
THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult...
Category: Articles