LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
The annual meeting was held in London on October 18th, and the seven life-boatmen who have won medals for gallantry since the end of the war were present. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided and read a message from...
Category: Articles
The Prudential Is Sold
THE famous Ramsgate life-boat Pru- dential left the service of the Institu- tion in November when she was sold to Mr. F. H. W. Haywood, a London architect. The Institution's flag was struck for the last time aboard the Prudential at a...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Harry Burgess, who has been coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat since 1947. He served as second cox- swain for nearly a year, and as bowman from 1931 to 1936"and 1937 to 1946..
Category: Articles
(Below) Commander F R H Swann Cue Chairman of the Management Committee
(Below) Commander F. R. H. Swann, CUE, Chairman of the Management Committee, describes steering position details to Alderman F. W. Marshall, Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and the Lady... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friends of the RNLI
These corporate partners offer discounts to you and fundraising benefits for our charity
Coastal Spring
Look out for the Coastal Spring range of Cornish bottled water in your local shops, bars and restaurants....
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Three Station Secretaries
THE Institution has recently lost three very distinguished secretaries of life- boat stations, for whose long services it is very grateful.
Mr. Alexander Robertson, of Eastbourne Mr. Alexander Robertson, of East- bourne,...
Category: Obituaries
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting, 1901
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., V.P., m THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., V.P.
Seconded by Sir JOSEPH W.
PEASE, Bart., M.P.
Category: Meetings
Three Stages In the Launching of the St.David's Pembrokeshire Life-Boat Joseph Soar
Three stages in the launching of the St. David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat Joseph Soar. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of P. D. Lathan. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
HRH the Princess Anne
HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 7.10 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, it was learned that the mother of one of the crew members of the Coningbeg lightvessel was dangerously ill. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 7.30 in a light variable breeze and...