LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1994 Awards
The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension. Service in...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Services
South West Division French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1890
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1890, His Grace The DUKE OF FIFE, K.T., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
Category: Articles
The Guernsey Life-Boat Station. Contribution from the States of Guernsey
As long ago as 1803 a Life-boat was stationed at St. Peter Port, in Guernsey, this being one of the boats built by Henry Greathead, the builder,'in 1789, of the first Life-boat. In 1861 the local Committee invited the Institution to take...
Category: Articles
Top: The Green Lily Finally Founders And The Helicopter Crew Search For Their Comrade
Top: The Green Lily finally founders and the helicopter crew search for their comrade. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Song of the Life-Boat
When the tempest raves, and the angry waves Break crashing on the shore ; When the vessel cracks, and drops in her tracks, I face the ocean's roar.
I dance o'er the heaving surge and the foam, For the stormy sea is...
Category: Poetry
LIFEGUARDS IN THE FLOOD
When a quarter of the country is submerged every monsoon season, flooding in Bangladesh is almost routine. But in July 2015, a flooded inland village called eight beach lifeguards far beyond their ordinary duties. SeaSafe Senior Lifeguard...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th January, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee