LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
February (1)
CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboat Launches on Service
ILB Launches on service during the months June, July and August 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 4 and July 1.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd 1, 23, July 2, 17, 19 (twice), 20, 23, 31, August 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19 (twice) and...
Category: Services
Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
Category: Articles
‘ A LIFEJACKET SAVED MY LIFE’
For experienced fisherman Neal Dews, wearing a lifejacket didn’t matter. But when an angling trip took a turn for the worst, he soon realised how much it did Since learning to fish on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, angling has...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June 1971 to 31st August 1971: Launches 1,330, lives saved 787 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/8/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 94,443 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of April, 1950, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Oct 1871 THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair. j Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous j Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees. I Also the Report of...
Category: Committee
Annual Meeting
THE eighty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, April 16th, 1913, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Mersey, P.O., presided, and amongst...
Category: Meetings