LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Angling Boat Lady Jane
Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat D class lifeboat D-479 M*Y Buili 1995 Cost £11,275 Funding Gift of Or May Road ThaCftw Helmsman Amoi Bewick tor his 'outstanding skill, calm leadership and unswerving deter mi na lion lo perform a hfesavmg service'...
Category: Services
Shoreline
Subscription rates Shoreline goes from strength to strength; there are 116,000 members at the moment with hundreds of new applications received at RNLI headquarters every month. Inevitably, subscription rates must keep in line with rising...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th November, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by the Hon. GEORGE COLVIIXE, in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Ancient Order of Foresters £ ...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
Category: Branches
Mary Anne
Plymouth, Devon. At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht near Mewstone had fired distress signals. At 7.44, when the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched, a gentle...
A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1871
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current...
Category: Meetings
Coxswain Alan Thomas
Coxswain Alan Thomas of Tenby. Alan Thomas joined the Tenby lifeboat crew in 1966, was assistant motor mechanic from 1972 to 1974 and served as second coxswain from 1974 to 1982 when he became coxswain. He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs