LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Bellona, of Red Bay
On the 17th January, the schooner Bellona, of Eed Bay, was driven ashore in a heavy gale off the bar of Dtmdrum, and almost immediately be- came a total wreck. Owing to the thickness of the weather and darkness of the morning, she was not...
The Perils of Working Below the High Water Mark at Sennen Cove.
The perils of working below the high water mark at Sennen Cove.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, l11th April, 1912.
The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., was unanimously elected Chairman and SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
Category: Committee
Your Letters
Licencing for sailors? is interesting to speculate on what would happen if we were ever to lose our traditional freedom to go to sea.
Many lifeboat callouts are for seafarers in small craft powered by unreliable outboard...
Category: Correspondence
All adrift
22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...
Category: Articles
The Builders of the Boat: (I to R) V Greenyer D Belchamber T Merritt J Legg L Durham R Silverson the Senior Boatbuilder S Merritt K Boulding R Churchill A
The builders of the boat: (I.
to r.) V. Greenyer, D. Belchamber, T. Merritt, J.
Legg, L. Durham, R. Silverson, the senior boatbuilder, S. Merritt, K. Boulding, R.
Churchill and E. Morgan.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Passenger Steamers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution receives each year from a number of the big shipping com- panies part of the proceeds of collec- tions which have been made on board their ships on behalf of different chari- ties. The increasing numbers, as well as the...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ANOTHER YEAR has come to an end, and what a good year it has been for Shoreline. In the 12 months of 1980, 12,000 new members were enrolled— the largest number so far in any one year. That such a fine result was achieved is due to the great...
Category: Articles
Left: 'Watchdog' Co-Presenter Lynn Faulds Wood With Mrs Edna Mulhearn, a Keen Bingo Player Who Coined the Name Bingo Lifeline,
Left: 'Watchdog' co-presenter Lynn Faulds Wood with Mrs Edna Mulhearn, a keen bingo player who coined the name Bingo Lifeline, at the naming of the new lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs