LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norwegian Life-Boat Anniversary
by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Deputy Chairman of the Institution.
This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Kathleen
Aground on rocks A MEMBER OF LYME REGIS inshore lifeboat crew informed his honorary secretary at 1300 on Sunday, July 18, that a cabin cruiser was being driven on to Broad Ledge Rocks, half a mile east of the ILB station, and that one of her...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
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Flash rips sweep South West RNLI lifeguards had their busiest week of the year in early August 2005.
In just three days, they dealt with a staggering 368 incidents involving rip currents The peak of activity came on 8...
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1929
THE subject for the ninth Life-boat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools, held this year, was, " What are the qualities which make the Lifeboatman an example of good citizenship ? " So far as the quality of the essays was...
Category: Articles
INLAND LIFE-BOAT CREW
Stockport's unique life-boat crew—the only inland crew recognised by the R.N.L.I.—recently received a silver and bronze statuette of a life-boatman in appreciation of the crew's 33 years' work in collecting for the...
Category: Awards
Rude Bude!
Fundraising is never a drag for Bude lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the October, November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the October, November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
EOBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.— On 3rd September the ex-Coxswain of the Life-boat and three...
Category: Services
Carry On
Aberdeen.—During the morning of the 25th August, 1938, the Gregness coastguard reported that distress signals had been heard off Girdleness.
Wind and sea were slight, but there was a dense fog. The No. 1 motor life-boat...