LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ostend Motor Trawler Roger Henri
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 2.55 A.M. on the 28th December the coastguard reported that the Longstone lighthouse was firing rockets. A strong S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was very cold, with patches...
The Frank
At about midnight on the 8-9th February the district police constable roused the coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Andrew, and reported that a vessel was ashore south of Bondicar and making distress signals. The crew were assembled and the boat...
Annual Report. 1909
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord George F. Hamilton, G.C.S.I., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The RNLI and me: Sir Steve Redgrave
WHO IS SIR STEVE REDGRAVE?
Rower Sir Steve Redgrave is the only person to win gold medals at five different Olympic Games. He now works in the media, with charities, and as a motivational speaker.
The five-time...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
Category: Articles
A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
Category: Articles
The "Life-Boat Stores Unlimited."
IN 1922 we published a letter from a gentleman on the Gold Coast asking for the Institution's catalogue and samples, as we had been recommended to him as a firm " for goods and provisions." Our inability to supply a catalogue...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
Category: Songs
Garry Windehunk—You Can Only See His Legs—Is Not Only Supporting a World Record Number of 76 Lyres Tit a Garage In Ramsey His Weightlifting Feat Is Also Supporting the Mountbatten of Burma Li
Garry Windehunk—you can only see his legs—is not only supporting a world record number of 76 lyres tit a garage in Ramsey, his weightlifting feat is also supporting the Mountbatten of Burma lifeboat appeal to the tune of £500 in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1935.
£ s. d.
36 16 0 _« __«H_«. » Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days.
35 6 0...
Category: Accounts