LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...
Category: Obituaries
(Far Left) the 'Picking' Is Under Way As Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay
(Far left) The 'picking' is under way as Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay check their baskets. A simple system checks the goods against both the order form and the delivery note. So mistakes can't happen, can they?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Tougue Lightvessel, the Princes Light Ship and The Fusiler
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusi- lier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
The Ramsgate Station
As a result of negotiations which have been going on between the Board of Trade and the Institution since July, 1920, the Institution has now taken over full financial responsibility for the Ramsgate Station, and, as from 31st March last,...
Category: Articles
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries
1994 Awards
The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension. Service in...
Category: Awards
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...
Category: Services
Fundraising
National appeal day The RNLI is launching a national appeal day to be held every year, beginning on 8 June 2005 - Save our Soles or SOS day.
Throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, people at work, school or home will be...
Category: Articles
Levant, of Bristol
On the evening of llth May, a signal of distress having been hoisted at the Rock Light, the Rescue tubular life-boat immediately pro- ceeded down the Rock Channel, in tow of the steam-tug Universe, till within a mile and a quarter of the...
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...
Category: Meetings