LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New RNLI Vice Chair
The RNLI is recruiting a new Vice Chair as part of plans to find a successor to our current Chairman, Charles Hunter-Pease. Charles has stated his intention to retire in 2017, after what will have been 4 years of dedicated and inspirational...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Management.
Life-boat.
North Deal .
Friday, 25th July, 1919.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and confirmed the minutes of the...
Category: Committee
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
Category: Articles
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
The Lifeboat C class inflatable Operational Number C518 The Crew Thanks on Vellum: Helmsman Jeremy Thomas Crew Member Leonard Walters Lifeguard Simon Jury Vellum Service Certificates Andrew Walters Michael FaulknerC classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto...
Category: Services
Silver Medallist Samuel Cunningham
Silver medallist Samuel Cunningham, coxswain of Portrush lifeboat from 1946 to 1963. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily Mail'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jayne Edmunds, Aged 11, Was Presented With the First Churchill Award for Bravery at Sea During the London Boat Show.
Jayne Edmunds, aged 11, was presented with the first Churchill award for bravery at Sea during the London Boat Show. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Daily Express.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GIVE IT A GO: FOSSIL HUNTING
Ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs?
Foraging for fossils at the coast may be the closest you’ll get
Paddy Howe’s fascination with fossils started at a young age. ‘When I was a kid, I was...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Workers Honoured
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.
Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given...
Category: Awards