LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
Category: Meetings
Super-Quality of Life-Boats
CRITICISMS have been expressed in recent years as to the great cost of the construction of the Institution's Life- boats. It would seem, from these, criticisms, that the public do not fully: understand either the nature of Life-boat{...
Category: Articles
(left) the RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.
(left) The RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maritime Book Society
EQUIP YOURSELF FOR ANY VOYAGE '. . . every point of sailing under all rigs and in all weathers, meteorology, navigation and boat handling it should equip the yachtsman mentally and materially for any kind of voyage.' Sea Breezes '...
Category: Advertisement
On Station: Delivery and Naming of Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline By Peter Holness Membership Secretary
SHORELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED one of the most exciting periods in its history, for late last summer the first lifeboat to be funded by Shoreline members made her delivery trip to her station, Blyth, on the north-east coast of England, and on...
Category: Inaugurations
New Ways of Raising Money
A FOOTBALL match between members of learned professions and the police, which took place at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, raised some £70 for the Institution. It was organised by the Rev. J. H. F. Wilson, who himself played in the...
Category: Donations
Classifieds
20p per word; Minimum 10 words FUND RAISING Advertising pencils, superb ballpens, combs, diaries, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly, easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from Northern Novelties, Bradford BD1 3HE.
Category: Advertisement
Launch:
Launch: The coxswain checks the depth of water before signalling for the retaining chains to be released.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
Kingston Prison In Portsmouth
People passing by Kingston Prison in Portsmouth one day in April were amazed to see the prison doors swing open and hordes of oddly dressed 'convicts' flooding out. They were all competitors in the great charity jailbreak, organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs