LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report. 1897
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 27th day of March, 1897, The Eight Hon.
Gr. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord...
Category: Annual Reports
The R.N.L.I. Has Built Up Over 140 Years a Major Collection of Life-Boat Photographs and Illustrations. But Life-Boat Crews In Hazardous Conditions Seldom Get the Chance to Take Photographs. Som
The R.N.L.I. has built up over 140 years a major collection of life-boat photographs and illustrations. But life-boat crews in hazardous conditions seldom get the chance to take photographs. Sometimes the R.A.F. photographs lifeboats on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) 1949 Was the Year In Which Jim Bunting First Became a Member of Donaghadee Lifeboat Crew He Has Been Coxswain Since 1968
(Below) 1949 was the year in which Jim Bunting first became a member ofDonaghadee lifeboat crew. He has been coxswain since 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Away ! It Was the Roughest Weather In Which the Dungeness Boat Has Ever Been Launched Photographs By Courtesy of G T Paine
Lifeboat away ! It was the roughest weather in which the Dungeness boat has ever been launched.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir William Hillary's Appeal
SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
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Man overboard
The launch was one of their toughest – what would the lifeboat volunteers find when they reached the casualty, dragging in the water?
It was a bright and breezy morning on
4 September 2009 when a man and...
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October
Launches 33 Lives rescued 14
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A...
Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Second-coxswain William J. Bailey, of Walmer, Kent. He joined the crew in 1917 at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed bowman in 1942, and second-coxswain in 1945..
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas Henry Hutchinson, of Bridlington. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 30 years, serving as bowman from 1919 to 1925, second coxswain from 1925 to 1938 and cox- swain from 1938 to...
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