LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Boat Show
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 124. Lives rescued 106.
April Meeting.
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru...
Category: Services
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
WINTER 2017 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mrs DM Elvin from Oxfordshire who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs PA Andrew,...
Category: Articles
Adventures of An Old Life-Boat
IN 1901 the Institution stationed at Queenstown, on the south coast of Ireland, a pulling and sailing life-boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches in beam, with a draught of 37f inches. She was named James Stevens No. 20, and...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Dooey, Co. Donegal.—The institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum and £2 to each of two men, Mr. John...
Category: Services
Birmingham's Christmas Fair
A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.
The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...
Category: Articles
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
The Author With Amy Strath and (/) May Mcmaster Mbe Miss Strath Has Only Recently Retired from the Position of Assistant National Organiser After 36 Years of Exemp
The author with Amy Strath and (/.) May McMaster, MBE. Miss Strath has only recently retired from the position of assistant national organiser, after 36 years of exemplary service in the Institution's Dublin office. Mrs McMaster is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Les Coe the Head Launcher Shovels An
Les Coe, the head launcher, shovels an evenly sloping pathway between the sea and the short slipway by the turntable.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs