LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Across a Crowded Room: Thoughts on the Annual Presentation of Awards for Gallantry By Alan Neal
THOUGHTS ON THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF AWARDS FOR GALLANTRY by Alan Neal Deputy Secretary (Operations Division) 'AH! THERE'S THE RNLI,' exclaimed the coxswain of an East Anglian lifeboat who had travelled to London to receive a...
Category: Awards
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1857
Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
V.—MARGATE.
The Quiver, No. I.
This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.
A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...
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Rnli Cook Books Signed By Recipe Contributors Well Known In the World of Sport Went Like Hot Cakes Offshore Yachtsman the Rt Hon Edward Heath Mp Supported By S
RNLI Cook Books, signed by recipe contributors well known in the world of sport, went like hot cakes. Offshore yachtsman the Rt. Hon. Edward Heath, MP, supported by Sergeant Frank Elverson, did a roaring trade.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the National Life-Boat Institution
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 26th June, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
The Annie Ronald (of " Oak-...
Category: Committee
Rnli Medals and the Royal Mint By Oliver Warner
FROM ITS FOUNDATION in 1824, until the reign of George V, the Institution's medals were designed by officials of the Royal Mint. By courtesy of the Deputy Master, I am able to illustrate photographs of the original dies (Figs. 1 and 2),...
Category: Medals
At Her Righting Trial the Fast Slipway Boat Prototype City of London 'Capsized' By Crane Righted In Just Five Seconds Photographs By Courtesy of Brian Manhy
At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Propulsion of Life-Boats
IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....
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Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
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