LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...

Thursday, Sept. 6, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and the Wreck and Reward...

The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...

IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...

AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...

Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.

She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...

Those who explain the RNLI and its role to the uninitiated are frequently asked: 'how do other countries do it?' Can there be anywhere else in the world where the considerable cost of running a lifeboat service is met entirely...

Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.

The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...