LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Gourie, S.S. Finland, and Steamers Ivan Kondrup and Feddy
JANUARY 9TH. - ABERDEEN. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that machine-gun fire and the sound of bomb explosions, from an attack by enemy aircraft on shipping, had been heard east of Downie Point. A fresh S.S.W. wind...
A Remarkable Life-Boat Launch
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...
Category: Articles
In London for the Annual Meeting
In London For The Annual Meeting Coxswain Douglas Grant of Selsey Talks With Michael Boyes and Charles Mayo. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary
With deep regret It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the...
Category: Obituaries
Islay Lifeboat Gets All the Votes: October 10 1974 2345 Assistant Coxswain Alastair Campbell and Crew Deliver Colonsay and Jura Ballot Boxes for the Second Time In the Li
Islay lifeboat gets all the votes: October 10, 1974, 2345. Assistant Coxswain Alastair Campbell and crew deliver Colonsay and Jura ballot boxes for the second time in the lifeboat service's 50th Anniversary year after a four-hour night... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fund-raising branches and guilds throughout the country had very good results last year. Dundee branch increased its total by nearly 50 per cent to reach £15,800. the ladies' guild contributing £8,000 towards this sum; the...
Category: Donations
M.F.V. Venture
MFV standing into danger SHEERNESS deputy launching authority heard from Warden Point Coastguard at 2200 on March 22,1974, that a boat three-quarters of a mile east north east of the Coastguard lookout was exhibiting red hand flares and was...
Sea Beat
'COME ON, BEN,' and as Bridlington lifeboat prepares to launch on service Police Constable Usher quickly boards as seventh man; 'I'll come with you,' and at Douglas Chief Inspector Robin Corrin (later Deputy Chief...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
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...
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