LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...

A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...

THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...

HM The Queen visits Fraserburgh station Monday 22 June was a proud day for Fraserburgh as HM The Queen toured the town's lifeboat station.

In her capacity as Patron of the RNLI, she received a cheque for £305,613,...

VoIces Awe and wonder Garden designer Chris Beardshaw is passionate about the earth, the sea – and the RnLi, as Liz Cook fi nds out ‘What is your idea of Paradise?’ that is Chris’s question to everyone for whom he designs a garden. there is...

A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...

llth Nov. GEORGE PALMER, Esq., V.P,, in the Chair.

CONFIRMED Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Ordered the sale of 2001. Exchequer Bills, to...