LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Unpublished Letters of Sir William Hillary, Bt
His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.
By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...
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
RNLI News
Out in the open around the country! Once again the RNLI will be opening its facilities to visitors this year, enabling them to gain a firsthand impression of how the Institution works and the quality of the boats and...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Littlehampton lifeboats.
(updated 2nd edition) by Jeff Morris published by the author This volume is an updated second edition of one of a popular series of booklets produced by...
Category: Articles
A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
Preservation of Life from Drowning
SIR, IT is an important and cheering feature of the present age, that the general interests of our common humanity are so extensively cared for; and this has in various ways been exemplified, as it regards the physical wellbeing of our own...
Category: Correspondence
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 19th day of March, 1857, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...
Category: Annual Reports
People and Places
New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...
Category: Articles