LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
II* PLACE AUX DAMES As I pointed out in my first article, no Branch will be really effective—though it may, perchance, be technically effi- cient as a Station—nor will it exercise the far-reaching influence which should belong to it unless...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
1st July to 30th September.
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special Life-boat Display at the Pavilion Theatre in connexion with the showing of the film " Atlantic " and collections organized by the...
Category: Branches
Specialist training for new crew, supported by The LRET
With only 1 in 10 joining the RNLI from a professional maritime occupation, training is especially important. Formerly, inshore and all-weather crew were trained separately – now, they are taught the core skills together, increasing both...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fleet
THE review of the Institution's Motor Fleet, which it is usual to make at this time of the year, reveals the fact that we are feeling our way slowly, but surely, in the use of Life-boats installed with motor power. Ten years ago there...
Category: Articles
Plymouth Boy Wins Life-Boat Service Essay Competition
ROBERT ANTHONY FOALE of Hyde Park Junior School, Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, has won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the lifeboat service organized by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The competition was open to...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
Her Gracious Majesty the...
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Contents
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Why YOU should go Offshore Mike Floyd on why everyone who uses the sea should become an Offshore member - the latest membership grade At the Sharp End Lifeboat services which resulted in...
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A Subscriber for 53 Years
IN 1892 a man in Chatham began to subscribe to the Institution. He con- tinued to subscribe until his death fifty- three years later, in 1945. Since then his widow has continued the subscrip- tion in his name..
Category: Donations
Vellums for Sunderland and Whitehaven
A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.
Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...
Category: Awards
Cromer June 20 1986:
Cromer, June 20, 1986: Cromer townspeople donated generously towards Ruby and Arthur Reed II, the station's brand new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, and it was therefore fitting that so many should be there, joined by holidaymakers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs