LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOVELLY, DEVON.—During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's...
Category: Services
2015 enthusiasts' handbook now available
The brand new Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2015 is out now, priced at £7.
This annual guide includes up-to-date details of all the RNLI’s offshore and inshore lifeboats, and is the most complete listing...
Category: Articles
Weston-Super-Mare: the Cave on the South Side of Brean Down from Which Three Trapped Boys Were Rescued on November 12; on That Day a Full Southerly Gale Was B
Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS HENRY OWEN, on his retirement, after serving 15 1/2 years as Bowman, 4 1/4 years as Second Coxswain, and 13J$ years as Cox- swain of the Rhosneigir Life-boat, a Certifi- cate of Service and a Pension.
To THOMAS...
Category: Awards
Then And Now
tHen AnD noW First-c lass service The RNLI has been an eyecatching subject for portrayal on stamps for decades. Here is a small selection from the past and a preview of a new set of stamps due to be issued on 13 March. you can order from an...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st October, 1885.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and "Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Stand-off in the storm
When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers
‘With the weather like it...
Category: Articles
Stormy Stan's Sea Tales
There are around 2().(XH) members of Slonn Force, the RNLl's club for the under 16s. The club's exclusive magazine. Storm Force News, is full of exciting competitions, puzzles, salty sea talcs, jokes and cartoons - it also lends...
Category: Articles
Third Medal Service on Same Day
THE third of the services carried out on the 27th of October, 1959, for which medals for gallantry were awarded took place near Fraserburgh harbour. In the temporary absence of Captain R. T.
Duthie the assistant harbour...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Service. Its Expenditure at a Glance. Its Income at a Glance.
Its Expenditure at a Glance How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1954 £ s. d.
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Category: Accounts