LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contributions from the Services.
The officers and men of the three fighting services have shown their gratitude by the way in which they responded in 1940 to the appeal which each year the Institution makes to them. The Navy and the Air Force contributed five times as much...
Category: Articles
Rescue of a Flying Boat.
The bronze medal for gallantry has been awarded to Cowwain Walter D. Crowther Qf Plymouth, and its thanks on vellum to each of the eight member* of his crew, for saviaj a flyicg boat and the two men on board her. The flying boat was at...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Days In 1942.
In each of the first three years of the war the life-boat flag days have raised more than ever before. In 1942, 827 branches held these days and 541 collected more than ever before. 10,649,200 people contributed. That is 1,360,300 more than...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts on Board Our Merchant-Ships
IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition
IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893
" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
Category: Meetings
The Price of Fish In London
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...
Category: Correspondence
Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Irish Currach
Two Irishmen, neither in the regular service of the Institution, have each been awarded bronze medals for an unusual and gallant rescue carried out on the morning of 29th June, i964,atMeenogahane, Co. Kerry. The two men are Mr. Patrick O'...
Category: Services
Give As You Earn to the Lifeboats
Now, charity begins at work There's a new way of giving to the RNLI, called Give As You Earn. You join at work and it makes the money you give worth more.
That's because the donation is taken out of your pay by your...
Category: Donations