LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Checking In at St.Davids
In June, representatives of the Civil Service Motoring Organisation (CSMA), together with Frizzell Financial Services, presented St Davids lifeboat station honorary secretary with a cheque for £19,000. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SUDDEN SINKING
At sea, things can go very wrong very quickly, as Penarth lifeboat crew found out on 12 June
Kath Fisher couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning, she thought: ‘Is this an omen that something’s about to happen?’ At 1.15am, her...
Category: Articles
"Boats That Save Life." A New Film of Life-Boat Building
THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.
Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1920 The great difficulty in the way of Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses. It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCPPOBTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY OONTHIBUTIOjra.
t — His GBACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUHBERLAKD, P.O.
Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.
JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...
Category: Advertisement
After Demonstration Runs to Sea Hrh the Duke of Kent Disembarks from Soldian at Lerh'Ick Photograph By Courtesy of Fotopress Dundee
After demonstration runs to sea, HRH The Duke of Kent disembarks from Soldian at LerH'ick . . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Fotopress, Dundee. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs