LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penlee: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As the 52Ft Arun Mabel Alice Was Named In Newlyn on July 18
Penlee: The champagne bottle breaks as the 52ft Arun Mabel Alice was named in Newlyn on July 18. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Besley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read...
Category: Committee
Sea Rescue Services In Sweden
THE first organisation for rescuing those in danger at sea to come into being in Sweden was established by the Swedish Government in 1854, when a life-boat station was set up in the south of Sweden. The service was under naval control until...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KIXG EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY' VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS- HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
VICE PATRONESS—HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OT WALES.
VICE PATRONS-HIS ROYAL...
Category: Advertisement
Service to Holland 1:
Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.
the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...
Category: Services
Letters
First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...
Category: Correspondence
Enchantress, of Hamble
Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at 1920 the 48ft 6in...
Bjornstjerna Bjornson
SOTJTHPORT, LAKCASHIKE.—Shortly before 12 o'clock on the night of the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the W.N.W., rockets were fired, and a bright light was shown by a vessel in distress.
With the utmost speed...