LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Centenary Life-Boat Bazaars
THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.
The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...
Category: Articles
Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
Category: Articles
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Capsizing of the St. Ives Life-Boat. Medals Awarded to Coxswain and Crew
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1938 - - - - - 65,625 Capsizing of the St....
Category: Services
Shoreline from Page 128
had already arrived, so joined their colleagues for a 'hard sell'. The excitement grew. We put up a notice telling the public of our aim. We wrote boldly the number now needed, periodically crossing it out and substituting the new...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and us
Mayday, our national fundraising event, really seemed to capture the hearts of RNLI supporters – including some household names. Here’s why they pulled on yellow wellies to show their RNLI support …
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Category: Articles
Eddie Dorman
Eddie Dor man member of the Padstow branch committee for 20 years. Eddie was box officer from 1982 to 1996 and he and his wife were awarded the silver statuette in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
"The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound."
WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
Category: Poetry
Life-Boats Under Construction at Messrs. J. Samuel White's Yards at Cowes
Life-Boats Under Construction at Messrs J Samuel White's Yards At Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harbours of Refuge
The important question of providing harbours of refuge on exposed parts of the coast, where natural harbours are not to be found, to which merchant vessels and fishing-boats could ran for safety in gales of wind, has once more cropped up,...
Category: Articles