LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At Padstow on 23rd January
On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat, Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest life-boat in the Institution's fleet.
At five...
Category: Services
Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
Retirement from the Post of Chief Inspector.
ON 14th August Captain Howard F. J.
Rowley, C.B.E., E.N., to the great regret of the Committee of Manage- ment and the officers and staff of the Institution,...
Category: Articles
FROM OARS TO WATERJETS
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
Category: Articles
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Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...
Review
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
Category: Articles
Books
Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
Category: Articles
The Walmer Life-Boat Standing By the East Goodwin Lightvessel In 1961 When She Broke Adrift In Severe Weather. the Picture Was Taken Next Day After the Life-Boat Had Been Out In the Worst Condit
The Walmer life-boat standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel in 1961 when she broke adrift in severe weather. The picture was taken next day after the life-boat had been out in the worst conditions the crew could remember.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: the Crew Out on the Lough
Right: The crew out on the lough Picture: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th October, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee