LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 1993 Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Tuesday after the May Day Bank Holiday, 4 May 1993, saw the Institution's 169th Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Although held at...
Category: Meetings
Footprints on the Sand of Time By Edward Carpenter
THE YEAR OF 1891 was one well remembered for the terrible storms that caused many lives to be lost in the Channel. The Romney Marsh coast was no exception. On March 9, 1891, in a severe gale the Coastguard, with local folk, were called to a...
Category: Articles
Captain Hornblower Depicted Here By the Children of Cardinham Primary School Overlooks His Costume Contemporaries at the Bodmin Branch Annual Ball Held at Lanhydrock House the Event
Captain Hornb/ower, depicted here by the children of Cardinham Primary School, overlooks his costume contemporaries at the Bodmin branch annual ball held at Lanhydrock House.
The event made £800, adding to Bodmin's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gary Stanbury Pictured at the Helm Amongst the Sandbanks
From left: Crew Member Andrew Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Member Martin Davis Reproduced courtesy of the North Devon journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canoes
Canoes HEARING AT 1335 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that a canoe had capsized off Dover, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins informed Dover Port Control that he and a crew member who was with him were going to the boathouse to stand by....
Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...
Category: Obituaries
A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast
EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...
Category: Articles
NEW YEAR – NEW KNOWLEDGE
Start 2017 by boosting your maritime knowledge.
Our collection of New Year reads will also give you plenty of
impressive facts to share at what’s left of the festive party season!
For salty...
Category: Articles
Stay safe this Summer
RNLI lifeguards will be on patrol on all the usual beaches in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Jersey this Summer. We're in negotiations to take on some more beaches too – watch this space!
With the Olympics and...
Category: Articles
The Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution
AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...
Category: Branches