LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st August to 30th September
Greater London.
BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Entertainment at Bed- dington, with addresses by the Mayor, Miss Roberts, honorary secretary, and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...
Category: Articles
The Winning Touch
Above: The overall winner - an Atlantic speed by Alan Sewell (nominated statio Far right: Winner of the 'Camera Action' section - R. D. Farnworth (nominated station, West Kirby) Near right: A colourful entry in the Volunteers'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First wave
It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …
The industrial...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
Category: Services
Annual Report
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1876. His Grace The DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, being unable to...
Category: Annual Reports
The RNLI and me: James Cracknell
WHO IS JAMES CRACKNELL?
When he retired from competitive rowing in 2006, James Cracknell OBE had two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles under his belt. In the same year, he and TV presenter/adventurer Ben Fogle...
Category: Articles
Letters
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, April 14th, 1932.
Sir GODFKEY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of Sir William Priestley, President of the Bradford Branch, and a Vice- President of the Institution since 1926, and...
Category: Committee