LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Rush hour
One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded
At 7pm on...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 119. Lives rescued 86.
April Meeting.
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1955. 63 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
Category: Services
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor MR. WILLIAM JAMES has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help he has given to the life-boat service for forty-three years as honorary secretary of the Runswick...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Classified
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Category: Advertisement
Ceremonies
A new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat which will serve in the relief fleet, was named and dedicated at the Institution's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, East Cowes on 25 November 1992.
The cost of the lifeboat had been met from a...
Category: Inaugurations
A Gala Performance. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales's Idea
AT the suggestion of the Prince of Wales, the President of the Institution, the first presentation in England of the film " The Black Journey" was given in aid of the Life-boat Service, at a Gala performance, on 16th January last....
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, THURSDAY MAY 22 'The RNLI . . . the finest club in the country . . .' MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames on Thursday May 22 for the...
Category: Meetings