LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘THANK YOU FOR RESCUING US!’
When sisters Emily and Lydia visited Newborough Beach in north Wales on a blustery February day, they had no idea they’d end their trip on Trearddur Bay’s lifeboat
Getting cut off by the tide is an incredibly easy mistake...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th September, 1902.
Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Stepping out
Going for a run is the perfect way to give your health a boost this Autumn. It's the ultimate free stress-buster and fat-shifter, and it's easy to get started
The joys of jogging...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey.—Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's...
Category: Services
Armistice Day
AT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and at Whitby, Yorkshire, the Motor Lifeboats took part in the Armistice Day ceremonies on November llth last, and at Heck- mondwike, Yorkshire, the twenty-five members of the Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
{Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 4TH MARCH, 1824. - SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
Most gracious Majesty VICE...
Category: Advertisement
Behind the Bleep
It’s time to run – the pager’s gone off, calling the dedicated volunteer fromtheir work or bed. Mairéad Dwane discovers the technology behind the drama
RNLI crew members, shore helpers, launching authorities, medical...
Category: Articles
Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground
ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
Category: Services
The Word "National" In Our Title
AT first sight it might seem quite unnecessary to explain the meaning of a word which is so descriptive and so obvious in its application to the work of the Institution as the word " National." The operations of the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry