LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: 'Gallant Rescue By Ladies'
Romantic fiction often portrays Victorian women as weak, passive creatures, but the list of RNLI Gallantry Medal awardees shows another side. Nineteen women have been awarded Medals for Gallantry in the RNLi's history.
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1894
THE pressure of work thrown on the Board of Trade last year was so great that the Department was unable to issue until the close of the year their very valuable "Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which occurred on or near the Coasts...
Category: Articles
Going postal
We’ve all had to sort through junk mail – a lot of it goes straight in the recycling and some is put aside for that lazy afternoon when we might want to order pizza, a taxi or a window cleaner. Charities send unsolicited mail too but, for...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 9th Juno, 1904.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1888.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., T.V., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats In June, July and August, 1951. 116 Lives Rescued
DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN B. MCLEAN, on his retirement, after serving for 16J years as coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, gratuity and a retirement allow- ance.
To BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, on his...
Category: Awards
Membership News
It was formally announced at the AGM in May that subscription rates for adult membership schemes are to increase from 1 September this year. Neil Morris (left), Membership Marketing Manager, explains the reasons for the increases, just how...
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The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...
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