INTERESTING CEREMONY AT THE MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN.
A VERY interesting ceremony took place on the 6th March last at the Mansion House, Dublin, when the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of that city made (at the request of Miss...
Category: Poetry
While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
Category: Articles
On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant...
MARINE VHP RADIO SCANNER 10 channel communications receiver made exclusively for the maritime VHP frequencies. Manual channel selection or autoscan Volume & Squelch controls, built in speaker, earphone, nicact battery Quartz crystal...
Category: Advertisement
A total of 400 RNLI lottery tickets sold by one person is a record set by Stuart Maggs of Hythe branch. Well done Mr Maggs—but are there any challengers? How about individual flag day collectors? Roger Cope, a member of Birmingham branch...
Category: Donations
Thursday, 6th December. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.j F.R.S., V.P.i in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes at the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees of the ROYAL...
Category: Committee
1968 £ 279,243 674,846 954,089 1,303,598 220,000 ENDOWMENT FUNDS (Income only from which is available for expenditure in accordance with donors' directions) RESTRICTED FUNDS (To be applied as directed by donors) GENERAL FUND (see...
Category: Accounts
Inland support So far this financial year, land-locked Leominster branch in Herefordshire, has raised over £1,300 from the sale of souvenirs and gifts. Branch members regularly take their wares around shows and fairs, increasing sales... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.
Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...
Category: Articles