LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
South African Lifesavers
On the outside of the lifeboat station was a board recording the number of launches, people assisted and so on. 'That's the important one', said a crew member, pointing to 45 lives saved. Only the sharp shadow of his hand cast...
Category: Articles
The RNLI looks at the year's work and the future: 97,000 lives saved since 1824 continued from page 16
MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.
Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...
Category: Meetings
Celebrating a big year
In May we’ll be celebrating the achievements of RNLI volunteers and supporters at the Annual Presentation of Awards. It’s all happening at the Barbican Hall, London, on 21 May 2015. The Annual General Meeting starts at 11.30am and the awards...
Category: Articles
RNLI West Country Marketing Group,
WHEN OTHERS SEEK SHELTER The first Trent Class lifeboat 'RNLB The Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma' by Christopher Southcombe The original painting, which now hangs at Broadlands, was presented by the artist to the Countess...
Category: Advertisement
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Rick Tomlinson A Trent class lifeboat on trials off Cowes in winds gusting to 50 knots. This is one of many spectacular photos which appear in Rick Tomlinson's 1996 Lifeboat Calendar. Details on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Articles
Where Help Is Wanted
In the North-West of England.
THE Institution is anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do...
Category: Advertisement
The Four-Masted Schooner Reform
On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...