LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 13th of March, 1951, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Filey's Boathouse
Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The naming ceremony of the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) at St. Katharine Docks, London, on 4th May, 1966, and (right) Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, being presented with a bouquet by 4 year old Alison Catherine Gibb who . . .
The naming ceremony o? the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) at St. Katharine Docks, London, on 4th May, 1966, and (right) Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, being presented with a bouquet by 4 year old Alison Catherine Gibb... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Line-Throwing Gun. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...
Category: Articles
2015 enthusiasts' handbook now available
The brand new Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2015 is out now, priced at £7.
This annual guide includes up-to-date details of all the RNLI’s offshore and inshore lifeboats, and is the most complete listing...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported the much lamented death on the 2nd instant of His Grace ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth DUKE...
Category: Committee
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles
The Prince's Trust: An Adventure at Aboyne
AN ADVENTURE AT ABOYNE TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF The Prince's Trust It's up to you—we will give you the tools, if you will do the job THE PRINCE'S TRUST, established in 1976 at the wish of the Prince of Wales, has thrown down a...
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