LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Princess Marina Presenting the Silver Medal to Coxswain J Nicholson of Aith
Princess Marina presenting the silver medal to Coxswain J. Nicholson, of Aith, f or his part in the rescue of the crew of 12 of the trawler Juniper on 19th February, 1967. The picture was taken at the annual meeting of the Institution at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Lottery
Lucky Lifeboat Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Fisher of Chester so enjoyed their prize holiday that they wrote to tell the Lifeboat magazine all about it The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery prize was a trip on the world's most celebrated train,...
Category: Articles
North of England and Isle of Man Community News
Morecombe
Fantastic 5p fundraising
When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats
Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...
Category: Services
Lifeboats at Llandudno and Conwy By Heather Deane
LLANDUDNO AND CONWY are neighbouring lifeboat stations on the north western tip of Wales, separated by just a few miles of coast but by more than 100 years in lifeboat history.
In 1850 Llandudno was a small village...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1899
Jan. 4.—Five men put off in a boat at night and rescued the crew of seven men from the fishing - boat Mary Anderson, of Broughty Ferry, which had stranded off Arbroath, For- farshire, in a strong S.W. gale and a rough sea.
Category: Articles
Fantasy
Walmer, Kent - On 29th August, 1968, the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of three of the yacht Fantasy, for which special awards were granted. A full account of this service will appear...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Despite being so far away, the RNLI's Hong Kong branch works tirelessly to raise funds for the Institution.
The committee members were thrilled, therefore, when HRH The Duke of Kent, the Institution's president,...
Category: Donations
The Crew
Awards for saving drowning man...
Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...
Category: Articles