LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest year on record
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
Category: Articles
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT if, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 26th day of March, 1874, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., B.O.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Shoreline Club No 13 at Rochford
Shoreline club no. 13, at Rochford, gives tremendous, regular help to the local branch. The club's 1984 annual pram race, in which 14 teams called at eight pubs to drink half a pint at each, raised £200 for Rochford branch. The race... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
A Steam-Launch
SIDMOUTH.—On the morning of the 23rd May H.M.S. Lively, with the DUKE and DUCHESS of EDINBURGH and suite on board, arrived off Sidmouth, and came into the bay, in order that his Royal Highness might land and inspect the Coastguard Station....
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...
Category: Services
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
COMPASSES Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses, post free on...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
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Martin Ruddy Awarded the Bronze Medal for Gallantry and An Inscribed Wristwatch Was Presented With the Watch at Last October's National Scout Regatta By P Denham
Martin Ruddy, awarded the bronze medal for gallantry and an inscribed wristwatch, was presented with the watch at last October's National Scout Regatta by P. Denham Christie, a vice president of the RNLI.
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Category: Photographs