LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
Category: Services
The Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Johannes Frederik
The rigid inflatable lifeboat Johannes Frederik pictured on a recent visit to RNLI headquarters at Pools. The new design of lifeboat will be operated by the North and South Holland Lifeboat Society. Lt S Wiebenga, the society's deputy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At noon on the 21st of March. 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a child on the middle island needed medical atten- tion urgently and that no other boat was available. At one o'clock, when the...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
Collisions at Sea In Fogs
THE Council of the SOCIETY OF ARTS appointed a Committee in March, 1883, with the full concurrence of the Marine Department of the BOARD OP TRADE, to inquire into and consider the question of collision at sea, the scope of the in- quiry...
Category: Articles
An Indian Applicant
THE Institution has had a letter from a consulting engineer in Travancore- Cochin, India, asking to be told how he "can get selected as a life-boatman in the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution in England." He is, he says, a ...
Category: Correspondence
Seventh national lottery
Seventh national lottery THE SEVENTH RNLI national lottery was one of the most successful yet held, raising £30,000 for the lifeboat service.
It was drawn on Thursday January 31, by Polly James and Elizabeth Estensen...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...
Category: Meetings
Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
Category: Articles
PLAYING SAFE
Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place
Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...
Category: Articles