LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus on the Hon Secretaries By Ray Kipling
For so many people, the lifeboat service is synonymous with those who risk their lives, putting out to sea to save others. Here, RAY KIPLING, Assistant Director of the RNLI, takes a look at the less glamorous, but equally important role...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Lyme Regis.
The Annual Meeting of the Branch was held on the 27th October, Dr. H. J.
Cooper, the Chairman of the Committee, being in the chair. The Annual Report for the year ending the 30th September last...
Category: Branches
The Mariner's Compass
By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
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Give As You Earn to the Lifeboats
Now, charity begins at work There's a new way of giving to the RNLI, called Give As You Earn. You join at work and it makes the money you give worth more.
That's because the donation is taken out of your pay by your...
Category: Donations
AWARDS to COXSWAINS, CREW MEMBERS AND SHORE HELPERS 1992
The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
Category: Services
The Dutch MV Roelofbuisman Stranded at Straight Point Exmouth on 23Rd March 1968 When the Exmouth Life-Boat Stood By
The Dutch m.v, RoelofBuisman stranded at Straight Point, Exmouth, on 23rd March, 1968, when the Exmouth life-boat stood by.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs