LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services
Sidelights on Stations . . .
A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
Category: Articles
Martin and Nigel Lutt Raised £33 for the Leighton Branch With Their Own Exhibition of Model Aircraft and Soldiers Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Beds and Bucks Obser
Martin and Nigel Lutt raised £.33 for the Leighton branch with their own exhibition of model aircraft and soldiers. photograph by courtesy of the 'Beds, and Bucks. Observer'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
What Happens to Old Life-Boats?
SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
Category: Articles
Leonidas
THE INCIDENTS which led to the launching of Angle lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth oj Leeds, on Monday, December 6, 1976, built up over several days.
On Saturday, December 4, the Greek...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To PATRICK SLINKY, on his retirement, after serving for 28J years as coxswain and 11 years as second coxswain of the Bally- cotton life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To MICHAEL BONOGHUE, on...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS — Her Majesty the Queen.
List of the Two Hundred and Forty-two Life-Boat Stations...
Category: Advertisement
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
Letters
Re-count . . .
In a branch house-to-house collection two boxes may, rarely, be found to contain the same amount when opened, but how about this ? Two collectors worked on the opposite side of each road in their area,...
Category: Correspondence
Peterhead Life-Boat Towing In the Fishing Boat Saga, September, 1950
(See page 126). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs