LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.
The new boat is 34 feet long...
Category: Articles
People and Places
New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...
Category: Articles
The Word "National" In Our Title
AT first sight it might seem quite unnecessary to explain the meaning of a word which is so descriptive and so obvious in its application to the work of the Institution as the word " National." The operations of the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Priceless support
More rescues than ever, a stormy economic climate, and plans to save more lives in the future: the RNLI’s AGM in May addressed a host of challenges …
Ladies and Gentlemen, set against everything we do is that continuing...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th June, 1926.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Appointed Mr. F. T. W. WINTER, District Organizing Secretary for the Midlands area, in place of Commander R. W. M. LLOYD, D.S.O., R.N.,...
Category: Committee
(Left) the New 52Ft Arun Class Relief Lifeboat 52-22 During Her Naming Ceremony at Poole
(Left) The new 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat 52-22 during her naming ceremony at Poole depot; in attendance, lying alongside the quay, is the new Waveney lifeboat which has now gone on station at Blyth.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Coble Sonny
Seaham, Co. Durham.—At about 3 p.m. on the 17th November the motor fishing coble Sonny was seen to be flying distress signals three miles to the south of the harbour. The weather was very cold, with a N.E. gale and heavy...
Each Year Since An Ilb Was First Stationed at Horton and Port Eynon In 1968 Reg James Although Confined to a Wheelchair Has Organised a Gala Sports Day at Burrows Ca
Each year since an ILB was first stationed at Horton and Port Eynon in 1968, Reg James, although confined to a wheelchair, has organised a gala sports day at Burrows caravan park as his contribution to the station. He presents his 1976... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs